The Latest Breaking News from Interest Rates

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates for the eighth month in a row, lifting its target by 0.25 percentage points.

The Reserve Bank of Australia lifts interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, taking the cash rate target to 3.1 per cent.

Did you know that the Government is running an incomes policy, in which it seeks to place a cap on people’s wages in the public sector regardless of what is happening elsewhere in the economy? Not officially, perhaps, but the truth is that pay in the public sector is rapidly…

Financial specialists attributed features of liquidity scarcity in the Saudi financial and banking sector to the effects of raising interest rates and increasing the Saudi Interbank Offered Rate, or Saibor, along with the emergence of attractive investment opportunities. According to specialists, the interest rates rose in parallel with the decline…

Under the state’s Permanent School Fund’s Bond Guarantee Program, schools get the best interest rate on bonds. That soon may be over if the federal government doesn’t act.

Investors are keeping a close eye on areas ranging from US Treasury market illiquidity to Japanese government debt

Swiftly rising interest rates have punctured the cryptocurrency bubble, exposing fragility, bad governance and even fraud in many corners, most notably at the crypto exchange FTX. And FTX's spectacular collapse comes on the heels of other recent failures in the cryptosphere, such as Terra-Luna, Three Arrows Capital or Voyager Digital.…

The former Liberal treasurer has some harsh words for governments past and present.

Credit agencies are watching like hawks as the Government introduces its two most important Three Waters bills to Parliament this month – the final structures will determine whether NZ can pay the price to fix its run-down water infrastructure.