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 ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least a quarter percent this week, dropping its federal funds rate to between 4 and 4.25 percent. What will that mean for gold and silver?

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 idea of negative interest rates may seem counterintuitive, if not downright crazy. In a world where lenders make money by ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank sees a high bar before reintroducing negative interest rates, chairman Martin Schlegel said in his last interview before the central bank's monetary policy ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC: The Federal Reserve logo is seen on the William McChesney Martin Jr. Building on September 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the policy-making arm ...

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 ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Florida, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Although the Bank of Japan is raising borrowing costs and Japanese Government Bond yields are the highest in 15 years, "real" inflation-adjusted rates in the world ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, April 7 (Reuters) - Thailand's central bank said on Thursday that higher oil, food and wage costs may lift inflation and the country's economy does not need negative real interest ...