Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The first batch of the new bonds to be issued will be for an amount between Rmb80bn and Rmb100bn, according to two people who received requests from the central bank....
...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...
...The moves came after the Swiss National Bank became the first major central bank to start easing monetary policy as it unexpectedly cut its headline interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.5 per cent....
...But the Fed was not the only central bank that markets deemed surprisingly dovish. Two days before the Fed, the Bank of Japan wrapped its first interest rate increase in 17 years in dovish packaging....
...Economic statistics: Brazil’s central bank releases results of a weekly economic survey with more than 100 financial institutions....
...US stocks notched their first back-to-back weekly loss in more than four months, with investors now looking ahead to several central bank decisions next week....
...They reckoned that positive capital gave national central banks options to act in a crisis among other things....
...With all 50 states now crossed off our list, we’re wondering whether to set ourselves another goal to take us to new parts unthought of. Visiting all 63 US national parks?...
...Thomas Jordan, the long-standing chair of the Swiss National Bank, announced his resignation on Friday, bringing to an end a turbulent tenure of unorthodox policymaking....
...Argentina’s central bank has put the country’s first 10,000-peso notes into circulation, in a long-awaited step to streamline the nation’s cumbersome use of large heaps of cash following the collapse of...
...The yen whipsawed against the dollar on Friday as analysts warned of a high risk of intervention by Japanese authorities after the central bank kept interest rates near zero....
...The Swiss National Bank announced a surprise cut to interest rates on Thursday, in a sign of policymakers’ confidence over falling inflation....
...Boris Vujčić, governor of the Croatian National Bank, said that the ECB could move first and would look at domestic data, but he warned, “the longer a possible gap between us and the Fed widens, the more...
...The National Bank of Hungary accelerated the speed of rate cuts following a 0.75 percentage point cut in January....
...Glapiński is a member of the ECB’s general council along with all heads of EU national central banks....
...A concern that the Swiss National Bank had waited too long was evident in its statement after cutting rates to 1.5 per cent last month....
...The Bank of Mexico on Thursday cut interest rates for the first time in this cycle, making it the latest major Latin American central bank to begin lowering borrowing costs....
...First up, the BoJ itself has form. Ahead of, and during, the global financial crisis the bank bought about ¥2.4tn in shares held by financial institutions....
...The European Central Bank has announced its first annual loss for almost two decades, prompting policymakers to carry forward an annual deficit to offset against future profits for the first time....
...A third allegation — recently raised by Paweł Mucha, a member of the Polish central bank’s management board — concerns Glapiński’s projection that the central bank would make a sizeable profit in 2023....
...While this worry is shared by many central banks, a particular concern for the BoE has been an apparent rise in economic inactivity — with record numbers of people saying ill health was stopping them working...
...The governor of the Swiss National Bank is stepping down after more than 10 years at the helm. Thomas Jordan informed the SNB he would step down at the end of September....
...Steady monetary policy in the UK this week would chime with the approach of big central banks including the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, which are making it clear they will start reducing...
...Eurozone economy: The European Central Bank will publish the minutes of its latest monetary policy meeting which took place in April....
...The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised its short-term inflation forecast and all but ruled out an interest rate cut this year, joining other central banks in warning that persistent price growth will keep...
International Edition