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4 Nov 21
The European Central Bank is unlikely to hike interest rates next year, as inflation is forecast to reduce over the medium term, according to president Christine Lagarde.
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2 Nov 21
The Reserve Bank of Australia has abandoned the yield target policy it introduced at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, recognising that a rate rise could come sooner than previously expected.
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8 Oct 21
The National Bank of Poland has caught economists off guard by raising interest rates to stave off inflation risks.
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6 Oct 21
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has raised its interest rate to help reduce soaring property prices.
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23 Sep 21
Norway’s has raised its main interest rate, saying it is "likely" that further increases will come as the nation emerges from Covid-19.
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7 Sep 21
Egypt must find a way to reduce its debt servicing costs if it is to weather the potential shock of interest rates rising, its government has been warned.
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27 Aug 21
The Bank of Korea has raised its base rate for the first time since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, becoming the first central bank to do so among the large Asian economies.
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18 Aug 21
New Zealand’s central bank has decided against a widely-expected rise in interest rates due to new restrictions to combat a new Covid-19 infection.
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23 Jul 21
The European Central Bank will not risk harming the economic recovery from Covid-19 by withdrawing its emergency monetary support early, its president has said.
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9 Jul 21
The European Central Bank will now accept “temporary deviation” around its new inflation target of 2% as part of a fresh monetary policy strategy.
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18 Jun 21
High US inflation rates related to the Covid-19 bounceback are set to be transitory, but interest rates rises might be needed by 2023 to deal with longer-term inflationary pressures, according to the...
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23 Mar 21
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unexpectedly fired the governor of Turkey’s central bank just three months into his term.
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28 Nov 16
A shift toward protectionism would dash any hopes that the global economy can be broken out of its “low-growth trap”, the OECD has warned.
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25 Aug 15
The Chinese government has allowed the country’s main state pension fund to invest in the stock market for the first time as part of efforts to halt the fall in share prices that has led to increased...