Bank of Japan Hesitant on Self-Sustaining Recovery
The Japanese Central Bank mentioned in their November report for Economic and Financial Developments...
Eurozone Out of Freefall Says Trichet
In an interview with French journal Le Monde the European Central Bank President was asked the follo...
US Federal Reserve Exploring Interest Policy Rate Band
The US Fed is looking forward at what tools are at its disposal in the future to stem the threat o...
Norway’s Central Bank Raises Rates to 1.5 Percent
Norway is the first European nation to raise rates, and the third worldwide. The 25 basis points i...
Indian Central Bank Holds Interest Rates
The Reserve Bank of India maintained its interest rates unchanged this Tuesday. The thread of infl...
South Korea Not Limiting Foreign Investment
After the announcement that Brazil will tax foreign inflows to stem the appreciation of the currency...
China’s Forex Reserves hit 2.27 Trillion Record
China's Central Bank has announced a new record of foreign exchange reserves of $2.27 trillion. ...
European Central Bank Press Conference
The ECB has released its transcripts from the Press Conference held this morning, where Jean-Claud...
Eurozone interest rate held at 1%
The ECB kept rates unchanged at 1.00% in a decision that was expected by the majority of market pa...
BoE to Exit QE Program in 6-12 Months According to Poll
Analysts are forecasting an end to the Quantitative Easing program that the Bank of England has been...
Central Bank Exit Policies
Very interesting to read Donald L. Kohn's thoughts on the conditions, tools and how to communicat...
IMF G7 and World Bank Meetings Schedule
This time held in Istanbul, the semi-annual meetings will kick off with the release of the IMF Globa...
Swiss Central Bank Holds Key Interest Rate
The Swiss National Bank left its three month libor target rate without change in line with market fo...
Fed: Economy has improved, challenges remain
Half of Federal Reserve districts saw evidence the U.S. economy had improved by the end of Augus...
Central banks keep rates at record low
Britain, South Korea and New Zealand left interest rates at record lows on Thursday, with Canada...
Bank of England holds rates at 0.5%
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee agreed to keep interest rates a...
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...