The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

December S&P 500 futures (ESZ23) are up +0.14%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ23) are down -0.11% this morning as investors digested weaker-than-expected business activity readings from China and the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy decision, with the focus shifting to the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee meeting and…

With wages growth and job vacancies slowing, the monetary policy committee should hold interest rates again if it wants to avoid storing up trouble

Rather than being vetoed by bond markets, policymakers are seeking higher rates–and getting what they want.

RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee decision to leave interest rates unchanged even as the central bank warned of the major risk that ‘high inflation’ poses to macroeconomic stability is a clear sign that monetary authorities find themselves caught in a cleft stick.

Chris Eichbaum argues Chrstopher Luxon could do with a dose of John McCain-style leadership and integrity

Business & investing: ANZ Bank economists expecting rate rise before year's end, but Kiwibank thinks hikes aren't necessary, writes Andrew Patterson

As the Bank of Canada prepared to announce its decision on interest rates in early September, Tiff Macklem, the bank’s governor, received imploring letters from premiers spanning both the country and the political spectrum.

Revised bets on interest rates in the UK and US today kept sterling under pressure.

Misinformation is circulating about recommendations concerning the Reserve Bank board made by the RBA Review, of which I was a member.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says there are still a handful of issues the Reserve Bank and the government are working through from the review into the central bank.

Markets see Thursday’s interest rate decision from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee more or less a coin toss