U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington, D.C., the United States, on March 22, 2023. The Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points at the conclusion of ...

Debate grows on whether Fed interest rate hikes are done for 2023 in this week’s Advisor Lookahead Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani Published September 17, 2023 Updated November 8, 2023 ...

As the Bank of Canada prepares for its next rate announcement on July 30, Canadian sentiment is heating up — and so is the ...

Inflation pressures are easing, which could give policymakers room to keep interest rates at or near current levels for the time being. Still, price gains remain well above the central bank’s 2% ...

Four key forces helped push long-term rates lower. Because Canada is a small open economy, the global balance between saving and investment matters more for the real neutral interest rate than what’s ...

Bank of Canada Didn't Debate Hiking Interest Rates in March. Bank of Canada officials didn’t actively consider raising interest rates in early March and were “comfortable” that inflation would slow ...

Federal Reserve officials are determined to hold interest rates steady a little while longer, though an increasingly ...

European Central Bank policymakers have begun to debate whether interest rates need to be lowered enough to start stimulating the economy, ending years of economic restriction, conversations this ...

President Trump clashed with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as more lawmakers weigh in on a need for an interest rate ...

When central banks are pressured by politicians into overheating the economy, everyone ends up getting burned.

MONTREAL—In the debate over the leaders debates of the upcoming federal campaign, common sense suggests that the public interest would be best served by ensuring that they are available to the ...

Higher interest rates are starting to slow the economy, something the central bank says is necessary to restore balance between demand and supply. A slowdown, however, would come with consequences.