ECB Holds Line on Interest Rates
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) maintained its historically-low rate of 1.0 percent not...
UK Ready to Commit Extra $11bn to IMF
Alistair Darling the UK's Central Banker spoke ahead of the G20 meeting touching on the subject brou...
Canada Plans First U.S.-Dollar Global Bond in Decade
Canada plans to sell as much as $3 billion of U.S.-dollar bonds worldwide in “th...
Swedish Central Bank First to Offer Negative Interest
This practice was used by Japan's central bank as part of their quantitative easing strategy from 20...
Bank of Japan’s Shirakawa Urges Policy Makers to Avoid Bubbles
BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa addressed the central bankers reunion in Kansas City with a message o...
Danish Central Bank Cuts Benchmark Rate by 10 points
Denmark's central Bank cut its key lending rate by 10 basis points to leave the benchmark rate at 1....
US Economy Has Leveled Out According to Fed’s Lacker
In a speech this afternoon, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker was quoted as s...
Australian Central Bank Holds rate at 3%
Ealier this morning the Reserve Bank of Australia held its benchmark rate unchanged at 3.00%. The de...
OECD and BOJ Member push for Bond Purchases
Today the OECD suggested that  the Bank of Japan should maintain its policy of buying corpor...
Polish Central Bank Cuts rate by 25bps to 3.50%
The Central Bank of Poland reduced rates today by 25 basis points in line with analyst's forescast. ...
Swiss Central Bank leaves rates unchanged
The SNB kept the benchmark interest rate target at 0.25% today. Jean-Pierre Roth, president of the...
Norway’s Central Bank to Twitter Rate Decision
The Norges Bank announced its benchmark interest rate decision via twitter this Wednesday. The Norw...
Bank of Japan leaves interest rates unchanged
The statement by the Japanese Central Bank was received as a sign of improving given its prior comme...
Turkey’s Forex Reserves Increase in June
The Turkish Central Bank announced today that its foreign exchange reserves had increased from $66.3...
ECB activates swap line with Swedish CB
Earlier today the ECB published a press release of the swap line activation with Sweden's Riksbank...