Interest Rates

Her Eleftherias Kourtali While higher inflation will help reduce pressure on debt sustainability, increasing bond yields makes debt service more difficult, Goldman Sachs points out. With the ECB…
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Speaking in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Christine Lagarde stressed that the key interest rate hike would come as soon as the mass bond market (QE) program ended: "The first interest rate hike will take place…
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Rafael Bostic, a member of the Fed's board, appeared open to further interest rate hikes than planned at the moment, in case inflation persists at the extremely high levels it is at today. In particular, as…
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The European Central Bank (ECB) will begin raising interest rates gradually this summer, said Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a member of the ECB and governor of the central bank of France. Several members of the…
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The situation is good for the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates sharply, as the economy is strong enough to continue growing despite the cost of borrowing, said Fed Chairman Christopher Waller. "Now is…
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Her Eleftherias Kourtali The ECB will soon withdraw its monetary stimulus measures - negative interest rates and net asset purchases - that have prevailed for the past eight years. This, according to Citigroup,…
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The new inflation shock from the war in Ukraine has made clear the prospect of raising interest rates by the world's largest central banks, with the bar now being set higher in terms of monetary policy tightening that…
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Bond markets are forecasting a rise in ECB interest rates in July with relative certainty, as the demand is now being raised by even the most moderate central bankers. More specifically, at least three interest rate…
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Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel today urged his colleagues at the European Central Bank to raise interest rates in the face of persistently high inflation. "The window of opportunity for the first monetary…
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The central banker and member of the Board of the ECB Olli Rehn sounded the alarm bell for the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on the economic recovery, calling for the acceleration of the bank's interest rate…
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