Inflation is expected to continue declining this year, largely due to lower rent inflation. Furthermore, inflation is much closer to the lower limit than the upper limit of the SNB's 0-2% definition ...

Inflation targeting is a method used by central banks to maintain stable prices by aiming for a specific inflation rate, typically between 2% and 3% annually in many developed nations. The key concept ...

The real economic growth rate removes inflation in its measurement of economic growth, unlike the nominal GDP growth rate. Real GDP can be calculated by adjusting nominal GDP by inflation.

The writer is a research associate at the Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics There is much speculation that ...

The Bank of England has downgraded its prediction for economic growth in the UK. That’s a blow to the Labour government as ...

For more than a century, the Federal Reserve has slowly but surely destroyed this nation‘s once-sound monetary system. As ...

When the unemployment rate is low ... which drives economic growth. But low unemployment and strong job growth have a downside: A robust job market can drive higher inflation, setting the Federal ...

This is happening as central banks are trying to push rates down. But, as they reduce short-term interest rates, which are the rates they directly control, longer-duration rates are rising. This means ...

The US Federal Reserve voted unanimously earlier this week to keep the US Federal Funds Rate in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.

As gold continues to surge, two big banks have raised their gold price forecasts to $3,000, citing the threat of trade wars ...

Markets are largely expecting the first 25bp rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) next week on February 18. We ...