Following its third rate increase in January, the Bank of Japan held its key short-term interest rate steady at around 0.5% ...

The world’s lowest interest rate is longer Japan but Switzerland after the Swiss National Bank cut rates by a quarter-point.

In a widely expected move, the Japanese central bank maintained its target for the overnight call rate at 0.5%.

News reports, including from Reuters, foreshadowed the Bank of Japan’s landmark exit from negative interest rates in the lead-up to the decision. So did economic conditions, with sharply rising ...

Japan’s consumer inflation slowed slightly in February due to energy subsidies but maintained the uptrend keeping ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. According to FDIC data, the average interest rate on savings accounts is currently 0.41%. That rate is much higher than it was prior ...

A Reuters poll for September showed most economists predicting an end to negative interest rates in 2024. Prospects of a rate hike have helped pushed up Japan’s 10-year government bond yield to ...

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At present, markets are pricing in two further interest rate cuts between now and the end of this year. This could see the base rate will fall to 4 per cent by the end of 2025. However ...

Fed officials also project an uptick in the unemployment rate by the end of the year In the meantime ... If policymakers see negative signs in the data, that could prompt a cut to prevent an ...

The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at which central banks lend or discount eligible paper for deposit money banks, typically shown on an end-of-period basis. The South ...

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