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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Markets InsightClaire Jones
      Financial turmoil could end up doing rate-setters’ job for them

      Central banks may wish they’d been more careful what they’d wished for

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Lex
      Federal Reserve/ECB: credit tightening has not yet done its worst Premium content

      Trend of using expensive high-yield bonds to refinance the disappearing supply of bank loans has begun

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      European Central Bank
      US banking crisis could sway ECB from committing to future rate rises

      Inflation forecasts for 2023 set to be cut, but persistent price pressures continue to test rate-setters

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Markets InsightToby Nangle
      Is this time different for Japanese government bonds?

      Central bank policy of yield curve control will inevitably unravel

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Eurozone interest rates
      Italian central banker criticises hawkish ECB colleagues as rates rift widens

      Ignazio Visco fears swift tightening to control inflation will damage ‘fragile economy’

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      ECB must do more to tackle inflation ‘monster’, says Lagarde

      Central bank not seeking to ‘break economy’ but price pressures remain sticky, warns president

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      ECB officials warn of more interest rate rises as high inflation persists

      Officials say they may need to raise rates to hit 4% unless they see ‘clear signals’ that core price pressures are easing

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Ditching bond yield cap will be tricky task for new Bank of Japan governor

      Kazuo Ueda has hinted that ‘yield curve control’ is unlikely to survive in its existing form once he takes the helm

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      German inflation jump raises bets on ECB interest rate increases

      Rise in price growth in eurozone’s largest economy triggers speculation of record-high rates

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
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      German central bank acknowledges provisions are unlikely to cover shortfall resulting from holdings of €1tn-worth of debt

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
      It is time for the US to upgrade its fight against inflation

      Congress should hold the Fed more accountable while helping it to conquer rising prices

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      US investors need to keep a much closer eye on everywhere else

      Obsessively watching the Fed is one thing but Tokyo and Beijing matter too

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Is the Bank of Japan really easing policy?

      (No)

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Markets InsightClaudia Sahm
      The Fed alone cannot bring inflation down

      Management of demand is not efficient in dealing with supply-driven price rises: fiscal policy must play its part

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Megan Greene
      QE has become ‘Hotel California’ for central banks

      While commercial lenders change behaviour when the balance sheet expands, they do not change it back when it shrinks

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Markets InsightJohn Plender
      A neglected tool of central banks shows its worth

      Money supply numbers have been sending important signals before and during the pandemic

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Markets InsightBenjamin Shatil
      A shift in fund flows from Japan will be felt around the world

      If policy of yield control is phased out under incoming BoJ head Kazuo Ueda, a flight from foreign markets may accelerate

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Global Economy
      BoJ YCC > Fed QT

      What will Ueda do?

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Markets InsightAnne Walsh
      Investors should not expect much relief from volatility

      Transition to world of quantitative tightening will lead to reduced liquidity, capital rationing and persistent swings in asset prices

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      US inflation
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      Smaller fall in CPI than expected will increase concern over persistence of higher prices

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      European house prices
      Germany’s biggest house price fall in decades marks end of property boom

      Steep rise in borrowing costs depresses mortgage demand across eurozone

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
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      The pros and cons of QE — part ∞

      Was QE4 an expensive nothingburger?

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Is everything the Fed’s fault? Premium content

      And more on loosening financial conditions

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      Lessons from the great reflation

      There is a danger not just of loosening too soon but of loosening too far

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Markets InsightRichard Bernstein
      End the Fed ‘put’

      With the entire credibility of central banking on the line, the focus needs to be on fighting inflation

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