Fed policymakers signal no rush to cut US interest rates
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – U.S. central bankers want to hold off on cutting interest rates until they have more confidence that inflation is headed down…
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – U.S. central bankers want to hold off on cutting interest rates until they have more confidence that inflation is headed down…
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economic growth is likely to slow to 4.6% in 2024, and cool further to 4.5% in 2025, a Reuters poll showed, raising the…
By Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank needs to see further progress in dampening inflationary pressures, and companies along with governments need to chip in to prevent…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese policymakers maintained their warning to investors against selling the yen on Thursday in the wake of the currency’s renewed slide beyond…
By Balazs Koranyi MARRAKECH (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers are planning a springtime push to cut interest payments made to commercial banks, in part to recoup some of the…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation is stubbornly high with upside risks, so the European Central Bank’s next move could still be a rate increase before cuts come onto the agenda,…
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – Ahead of their policy-setting meeting this month, Federal Reserve policymakers have been pretty clear about two things: They are not itching to raise interest rates,…
By Divya Chowdhury MUMBAI (Reuters) -Policymakers expect persistently slower growth in China, perhaps even more sluggish than current consensus estimates, seeing its transition from an infrastructure- and investment-led economy to…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s annual consumer inflation accelerated to 3.4% in August while the month-on-month rate was the fastest since early 2017, which should keep policymakers on alert for…
By Divya Chowdhury and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is unlikely to provide clear signals on whether it will pause interest rate hikes or consider cutting…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s policymakers vowed to take measures to control consumer debt as the country’s household credit grew at the fastest pace in 1-1/2 years in the second…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu It’s a week that every investor has squarely on their radar: Three of…
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China left its lending benchmarks unchanged on Thursday, after the central bank stood pat on a key policy rate earlier this week even as signs of a faltering…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank will continue raising interest rates until inflation is under control, two ECB policymakers said on Friday as surveys showed the fight against rising prices…
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Central bankers across central Europe have doubled down on their hawkish policy messages in the past two weeks in a bid to persuade investors…
By Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve policymakers believe beating back inflation may require just one more interest-rate hike this year but less easing next year than most thought…
By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian policymakers on Monday moved to calm investor nerves after announcements of a historic Swiss-backed takeover of troubled Credit Suisse and a coordinated move…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese policymakers on Tuesday played down the risk of the economy taking a hit from the collapse of U.S. lender Silicon Valley Bank, even as fears of…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has banned its top officials from picking stocks and bonds or making short-term trades after a string of scandals at the Federal Reserve…
(Reuters) – Policymakers in Asia and Africa voiced growing economic optimism at a Reuters conference on Wednesday, chiming with a rally in emerging markets, an expected slowdown in U.S. rate…
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point at the end of a two-day meeting on Wednesday, marking the fourth straight…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that many of the challenges facing the global economy stem from Russia’s “terrible war in Ukraine” and continued pandemic…
By Swati Bhat and Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee may lean more on data in deciding the key interest rate going ahead…
By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank must power ahead with interest rate hikes to tame inflation and should even push borrowing costs to levels that restrict…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers see no need to step in and buy more Italian government bonds via a new emergency scheme despite a rise in the country’s…