Tag: Interest rate policy
Turn around or keep going? Japan is waiting for a new central bank governor
Tokyo Japan’s financial sector is facing the most important personnel decision in the past ten years. This week, the Japanese government will nominate two deputy governors and a successor to…
Canada closes real estate market to foreign investors
Toronto skyline In the Canadian metropolises, real estate is hardly affordable for the broad middle class. The current slowdown in the market isn’t going to change that much. (Photo: Reuters)…
Bank of Japan shocks markets with strategy change
Bank of Japan The Japanese central bank had always emphasized that it was the only major central bank in the world to maintain its strategy of extremely loose monetary policy…
Bank of Japan shocks markets with strategy change
Tokyo With an unexpected change of strategy, the Japanese central bank sent shock waves through the markets on Tuesday. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) decided to ease the range of…
Bank of Japan shocks markets with strategy change
Tokyo With a surprising change of strategy, the Japanese central bank sent shock waves through the markets on Tuesday. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) decided to ease the range of…
Market turbulence prompts debate over pace of rate hikes
Denver Charles Evans was the first to step out of the cover: It’s time for the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to slow down the pace of interest rate hikes, he…
Japan’s central bank will not be shaken by rate hikes
Tokyo The Japanese government reacted to the weak yen and intervened directly in the foreign exchange market for the first time since 1998. This was confirmed by Masato Kanda, who…
China’s central bank leaves interest rates unchanged
China The Chinese economy has recently been shaken by repeated corona lockdowns. (Photo: dpa) shanghai China’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, as expected. The one-year lending rate…
Monetary policy: Commerzbank chief economist calls for higher ECB interest rates
At first glance, the European Central Bank (ECB) is now taking decisive action against record high inflation. After all, it surprisingly recently raised its key interest rate by half a…
The ECB is getting even more political
The European Central Bank (ECB) has increased interest rates by half a percentage point. Negative interest rates are history, the official base rate is even 0.5 percent. So far so…
“The Fed lost their bet”
Frankfurt Adam Posen has long defended an accommodative monetary policy. But in view of the high inflation in the USA of 7.5 percent recently, the head of the Peterson Institute…
Washington’s Great Interest Rate Oracle – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
You can also overdo it with expectation management. There is probably no one left in the USA who, given seven percent inflation, does not expect interest rates to rise. But…
Equity markets: no spring crash 2.0
Stock exchange in Frankfurt Main A new stock market crash like the one in spring 2020 is unlikely. (Photo: dpa) The Dax has lost around 1000 points since its record…
Comment: Why the shortage economy represents an opportunity for the stock market
Material shortages and delivery difficulties: What represents a risk for the real economy, the stock market rewards with rising prices. That is only apparently a paradox. .source site
Will the central banks’ change in strategy soon lead to a turnaround in interest rates?
Dusseldorf The US Federal Reserve will reduce its bond purchases later this year – Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced at a meeting of the central bankers in Jackson Hole recently.…