Negative interest rates occur when prices begin to start dropping to low levels as the value of a nation's currency increases. At these times, central banks may resort to negative interest rates. The ...

Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari see the widely scorned monetary-policy tool as a necessary option in the absence of fiscal ...

Swiss National Bank Chairman Martin Schlegel has not ruled out taking the central bank's policy rate into negative territory ...

A bill would cap credit card rates at 10%, something Trump promised on the campaign trail. Will Trump follow through? Will consumers benefit?

Real interest rates can be negative. Even if the nominal rate is positive, inflation can erode purchasing power. The real interest rate includes inflation to give investors a more accurate measure ...

Japan's central bank has raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level.

All three of Japan's "megabanks" are on course for record annual income after the first nine months of the financial year as ...

German press reports that the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled negative rates charged by various banks in the past were "invalid" and were contrary to "good faith", thereby opening the ...

Once again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision in December to cut its policy rate to a mere 0.5%. When this issue has come ...