The president hasn’t named a successor to Jerome H. Powell, but his insistence on someone who will lower interest rates has ...

U.S. equity markets swung sharply through the first half of 2025, driven in part by swiftly changing administrative policy.

In Kenya’s case, global economists predict that the CBK will further lower the Central Bank Rate (CBR) from the current 9.75 per cent. The CBR is the main policy interest rate set by the Monetary ...

Only "a couple" of officials at the US Federal Reserve's June 17-18 meeting said they felt interest rates could be reduced as ...

The overnight policy rate (OPR) has remained at 3% ever since it was increased from 2.75% following Bank Negara Malaysia’s ...

The labor market was a bigger point of discussion in the Federal Reserve's most recent monetary policy-setting meeting, but ...

Fed Governor Christopher Waller and Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman have since said they felt rates could fall ...

Minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting read, “In considering the outlook for monetary policy, participants generally agreed that, with ...

With "current monetary policy moderately or modestly restrictive," Federal Reserve officials felt they are "well positioned ...

If leading the Federal Reserve isn’t challenging enough, the next central bank chair will face an additional burden.

We document large, longer-term, joint regime shifts in asset valuations and the real federal funds rate-r* spread. To interpret these findings, we estimate a novel macro-finance model of monetary ...

The monetary policy must be targeted and proactive to help improve economic structure, and be front-loaded and forward-looking to stay ahead of the market curve. The second is flexibility. The pace, ...