The Federal Reserve is tasked with creating a monetary policy that encourages price stability and maximizes employment. As a result, it attempts to keep inflation at around 2% a year because that has ...

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

Kudos to Sen. Cruz for having the courage to challenge the central bank,’ writes Judy Shelton.

The Fed’s median target rate is still well above the annual pace of consumer inflation. The odds are low that Fed will cut ...

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 ...

Minutes from the Fed’s June policy meeting tease at a looming split over whether and when officials will resume rate cuts.

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

Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) decision to lower the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent is a ...

We should be both alert to, and alarmed by, political attacks on central banks and their implementation of monetary policy.

A major lender has announced it is overhauling its mortgage products in a huge win for Britons. Nationwide Building Society ...