The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

Egypt’s Central Bank Raises Key Interest Rates by 300 bps

Egypt's central bank hiked overnight interest rates by 300 basis points on Thursday, warning that inflationary pressures were building, Reuters reported. The bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) raised the deposit rate to 16.25% and its lending rate to 17.25%, it said in a statement. "The MPC judges that demand side…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 23, 2022

Pause in rate hike could be costly policy error: RBI governor Shaktikanta Das in MPC meeting

MUMBAI: A premature pause in rate hike at this juncture could be a costly policy error as the battle against inflation is not over, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das opined while voting for 35 basis-point raise in the key lending rate earlier in the month, said minutes of the MPC meeting…

The Times of India · Dec 21, 2022

FTSE 100 Live: TSB fined over IT failure, Japan policy shift hits markets

Public sector borrowing soared to £22 billion last month, the highest November figure since monthly records began in 1993.

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2022

Federal Reserve slows pace of rate hikes, vows to fight on against inflation

The US central bank has raised its benchmark rate to its highest level in 15 years, although at a slower clip than previously. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell argues that while inflation has dipped, it is still too high to warrant a change in monetary policy. Also on the show,…

France 24 · Dec 15, 2022

Bank of England raises interest rates to new 14-year high

Warnings that further interest rate rises are likely in the coming months to stabilise the economy

Insider UK · Dec 15, 2022

The Standard View: Inflation may have peaked, but the cost of living crisis has a long way to run

Has inflation finally peaked? November’s Consumer Prices Index fell to 10.7 per cent last month, down from the 42-year high of 11.1 per cent in October and below expectations. That drop is likely to be deemed sufficient that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee can at least slow the…

Evening Standard · Dec 14, 2022

Rate hikes to be gradual, measured - central bank minutes

Further monetary tightening will be gradual and measured, and can be adjusted if necessary, after the monetary policy committee raised its key interest rate late last month, minutes of the meeting showed on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Dec 14, 2022

Westpac flags rates impact in 2023

Westpac expects tighter monetary policy and slowing economic growth to impact some of the bank's customers next year.

AAP · Dec 13, 2022

Bank of England expected to further increase interest rates

Interest rates could shoot to 3.5 per cent from next week following a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee

Manchester Evening News · Dec 12, 2022

2 Stocks That Are Always Safe to Hold During Bear Markets

The Fed’s aggressive monetary policy stance has kept the stock market highly volatile. Although the latest inflation report showed signs of a slowdown, it is far from target results. So, the potential continuation of rate hikes is widely expected to cause a recession. We believe that fundamentally sound stocks, Walmart…

StockNews.com · Dec 8, 2022