The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

3 Terrible Stocks to Buy During a Bear Market

The Fed’s aggressive monetary policy to tame the persistent inflation has dragged major indexes significantly down over the past year. As the bear market is not over yet, fundamentally weak stocks Carnival Corporation (CCL), Carvana (CVNA), and Redfin (RDFN) might be best avoided. Read more.

StockNews.com · Dec 27, 2022

India economic growth 'extremely fragile', needs all support, says RBI MPC member

NEW DELHI: India's economic growth is now 'extremely fragile' and needs all the support that it can get, as private consumption and capital investment are yet to pick up, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Jayanth R Varma said on Friday.

The Times of India · Dec 23, 2022

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

FTSE 100 Live: Traders hope for calmer week after interest rate jitters

Investors will be hoping for a calmer week after markets fell on the back of last week’s moves by central banks to tighten monetary policy.

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2022

Interest rates: why your mortgage payments are going up but your savings aren't – and how better monetary policy could help

The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has raised its main interest rate by 0.5% to 3.5%. This is the ninth in a series of increases over the past year that have had a ripple effect across the economy.

The Conversation · Dec 16, 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