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Is The Age Of Negative Interest Rates Ending Already?
June 12th, 2015
History teaches that long trends end only when everyone is finally convinced that they’ll keep going. Maybe no trend in modern times has been as convincing as interest rates. The yield on long-term Treasury bonds, for instance, has been ...
IMF Urges Fed to Wait on Interest Rates Until 2016
June 5th, 2015
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday slashed its forecasts for U.S. economic growth, calling for the Federal Reserve to hold off its first rate increase in nearly a decade until 2016. In its annual review of the U.S. economy, ...
Bank of Russia announcement On minimum interest rates at auctions to provide foreign currency
April 20th, 2015
Considering the developments in the domestic FX market the Bank of Russia decided to set the following interest rates from 21 April 2015: Minimum interest rates at FX repo auctions equal to LIBOR rates in corresponding currencies and for ...
Forget Interest Rates, the Fed Has Another Big Decision to Make in the Next Year
April 8th, 2015
In case exiting years of zero interest rates won’t be hard enough, Federal Reserve officials have another challenge approaching quickly: when to begin unwinding trillions of dollars of bond purchases that constitute the world’s largest fixed-income portfolio. Less than ...
Federal Reserve modifies stance on low interest rates
March 19th, 2015
The US Federal Reserve has modified its stance on interest rates, which have been kept at a record low of 0% since the financial crisis in 2008. It removed the word “patience” from its regular statement. The language was seen as ...
ECB issued a press release regarding interest rates
March 5th, 2015
On a meeting of the Governing Council of the ECB, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, was decided that: The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will ...
ECB issued a press release regarding interest rates
March 5th, 2015
5 March 2015 – At today’s meeting, which was held in Nicosia, the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit ...
Bank of Korea Interest Rates: January 2015
February 27th, 2015
□ In January 2015, the average interest rate on new deposits was 2.09%, down 7 basis point from December 2014. ― The average interest rate on outstanding amounts of deposits as of end-January stood at 1.88%, down 4 basis ...
Hellenic Bank cuts its base interest rates by 1%
February 19th, 2015
1% reduction in the interest rate for credit cards As a result, either the outstanding balance is reduced or the payback period shortened In line with its commitment to support Cypriot households and enterprises, Hellenic Bank is reducing all ...
Minimum interest rates at credit auctions to provide Bank of Russia loans in US dollars to credit institutions
January 26th, 2015
The Bank of Russia set the minimum interest rates for 28-day and 365-day credit auctions held on 26 January 2015 to provide US dollar Bank of Russia loans secured by the pledge of claim on US dollar loans at 0.9178% and 1.3719% per annum respectively. Other parameters of the auctions are published in the Bank ...
