The age of negative interest rates might not be over. Martin Schlegel, the head of the Swiss National Bank, discussed that possibility after the bank brought interest rates down by a half point to 0.5 ...

Steve Randy Waldman writes the finance and economics blog Interfluidity. In recent writings Waldman has put forward some incisive thoughts on negative real interest rates in the United States.

The present period of very low interest rates is widely assumed to be temporary, a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent central bank action. Because of this, as the financial crisis ...

As banks complain loudly about negative rates in Europe, they are also increasingly adapting to them, whether by lending more, boosting fee and trading income or charging depositors. But there are ...

More than two years ago, seeking to revive a moribund economy, the European Central Bank (ECB) embarked on a new monetary policy measure: charging interest on excess liquidity that banks held at the ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss inflation turned negative in May, marking the first decline in consumer prices for more than four years and adding pressure on the Swiss National Bank to cut its interest rate ...

Bumpily and with a few shudders, central bankers made the landing in 2024. The grim predictions that only deep recessions could pull sky-high inflation back down to earth proved misplaced. Instead, a ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino has signaled that an interest rate hike may be on the cards at the monetary policy meeting on January 23-24, as many of the shocks to the Japanese economy ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank cut its interest rate to zero on Thursday and did not rule out returning borrowing costs to negative territory in future, although it stressed this was not a ...