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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Effect of tariffs on inflation could be more limited if trade deals reached soon, says minutes - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Bank Negara Malaysia’s decision to lower the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent is a prudent and ...

The OPR is the benchmark interest rate set by BNM, which determines how much it costs banks to lend money to one another.