The central bank moved to hold down the value of the franc as the Russian crisis and falling oil prices caused a sharp correction of global currencies.
In a last-gasp effort to prevent an already depressed European economy from tumbling into an deflationary spiral, the European Central Bank announced a program of quantitative easing. But what does that mean?
Monetary policy has become increasingly unconventional. But now we have come to the most unconventional policy tool of them all: negative nominal ...
The Swiss franc has traditionally been a safe haven for investors in times of crisis. Why exactly has the Swiss National Bank been doing ...
Here’s a snapshot of what market commentators are saying about Australia's interest-rate cut.
A new survey shows 100% of economists think yields will rise in the next six months.
The global financial system needs policy cooperation argues Kemal Derviş.
The European Central Bank announced a set of unexpected measures that will include, in effect, paying commercial banks to lend money to businesses and consumers.
Keynes's 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money' is celebrating its 80th birthday.
The maker of the Swiss chocolate has shrunk and reconfigured two milk-chocolate versions, with narrower triangles and a wider gap between peaks.
Federal Reserve meeting minutes show the central bank discussed alternatives to the interest-rate benchmark it has been using for decades just as it is widely expected to raise the rate next month.
The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates at near zero since the 2008 financial crisis. To raise them, it has come up with a new set of tools. Produced by Katy Burne, Christopher Kaeser, Arielle Ray and Mark Scheffler.
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The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates for the third time since the financial crisis after being at near zero.
Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries-old problem - how to draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane. He claims the above map, called the AuthaGraph World Map, achieves this task. The projection, first created in 1999, frames the world's physical components in a 2D rectangle, attempting to represent their relative sizes as accurately as possible. It does so by dividing the world into 96 triangles, making it a tetrahedron, then unfolding it to become a rectangle.
How does the Fed conduct monetary policy
The picture is one of weak growth and pervasive populist politics
The picture is one of weak growth and pervasive populist politics
