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Central banks

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    What the Fed should put on the Jackson Hole agenda

    Central bank should use the summer to address issues key to America’s economic wellbeing and global financial stability

    Jay Powell at last year’s Jackson Hole meeting
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    European Central Bank
    ECB minutes reveal doubts over rate cut

    Move to lower borrowing costs concerned many policymakers as inflation and wages moved in opposite direction

    Christine Lagarde
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Questions in the wake of the global inflation hit Premium content

    There is still too much we do not know about what happened and why

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  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    European central bankers warn of risks to region’s economy

    ECB policymakers view French elections as sign of a broader shift in a more populist, protectionist and turbulent direction

    ECB executive board members Philip Lane and Isabel Schnabel deliver remarks at a background off-the-record meeting in Sintra, Portugal on July 1 2024
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Powell says US needs to cut deficit ‘sooner rather than later’

    Fed chief warns against running at high levels while output in world’s largest economy is strong

    Christine Lagarde and Jay Powell
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    UK quantitative easing
    How to (maybe) solve the UK’s quantitative tightening puzzle

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  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Were central bankers lucky or smart in reducing inflation? Premium content

    The BIS says ‘smart’ but the evidence is patchy

    FT montage of central bank buildings
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Global Economy
    Global inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    People's Bank of China
    China’s central bank moves to address bond frenzy

    Officials are increasingly uncomfortable with a rally pushing borrowing costs to lowest level in decades

    The People’s Bank of China building
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Global inflation
    Central banks should set a ‘high bar’ for interest rate cuts, BIS warns

    Umbrella body for central banks highlights risk of flare-up in services prices and wage growth

    BIS general manager Agustín Carstens
  • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
    News in-depthEuropean Central Bank
    ECB faces speculation over market intervention after French elections

    Bank has ‘transmission protection instrument’ in its armoury to help Eurozone countries in crisis by buying up their debt

    European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Was QE worth it? Premium content

    Quantitative easing appears to have cost British taxpayers at least twice as much as equivalents in the US, Europe and other advanced economies

    ECB president Christine Lagarde, BoE governor Andrew Bailey and US Fed chair Jay Powell
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Central banks urged to keep pace with ‘game changer’ AI

    Technology will have profound impact on global financial system, says Bank for International Settlements

    A montage of the ECB, US Federal Reserve and Bank of England
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Labour’s growth agenda demands an end to whipping-boy bank policies

    Imposing another de facto tax on the sector through Bank of England reserves would undermine the party’s pro-business shift

    Pedestrians pass the Bank of England
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    US Treasury bonds
    US borrowing binge risks market strains, analysts warn

    Federal Reserve may be forced to end quantitative tightening early, as stock of Treasury bills forecast to soar above $6tn

    Person walks by the Federal Reserve building
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Robert Zoellick
    Markets ignore the internal politics of central banks at their peril

    There are significant institutional constraints on the Fed and the ECB’s room for manoeuvre

    Christine Lagarde, the European Central Bank president
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss central bank cuts interest rates for the second time this year

    Chair Thomas Jordan signals SNB is ready to intervene in currency markets to stem gains in the franc

    A visitor arrives at the Swiss National Bank offices in Zurich
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s ruling Workers’ party seeks to gag central bank chief

    Senior PT figures file lawsuit against Roberto Campos Neto over alleged political bias

    Roberto Campos Neto
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China central bank chief warns of weaker credit growth as property lending declines

    ‘Many loans in China are not efficient,’ Pan Gongsheng tells major financial forum

    Pan Gongsheng speaking into a microphone
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    How to understand central bank QE losses Premium content

    They are real, whether countries choose to pay upfront or brush them under a giant rug

    Montage of central bank buildings
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Gold
    Rich countries plan to buy more gold despite record price

    Advanced economies’ central banks expect the metal’s share of global reserves to rise at the expense of the dollar

    Gold bars
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    Fed needs to cut interest rates sooner rather than later

    Delay by US central bank in easing monetary policy could jeopardise soft economic landing

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Financial literacy
    Central banks woo ‘wider audience’ with economy museums

    Sweden’s newly opened Economy Museum is the latest effort to make monetary policy more accessible

    The world’s largest coin, Swedish plate money
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ to ‘significantly’ scale back bond buying in shift on ultra-loose policy

    Yen weakens after Japanese central bank delays releasing details on plans to trim balance sheet

    A pedestrian passes in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Reeves warns against changing how BoE pays interest on reserves

    Shadow chancellor says Labour has no plans for an overhaul, adding there could be ‘dangers’ in reform

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at the Bank of England
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