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Monetary policy

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    People's Bank of China
    China’s central bank seeks European lenders’ advice on low interest rates

    People’s Bank of China asks for tips on fighting ‘Japanification’ amid low inflation

    Headquarters of the People’s Bank of China in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Gilts
    Gilts rally as Bailey hints at reduction in BoE debt sales

    Central bank has come under pressure to slow quantitative tightening amid global bond sell-off

    BoE governor Andrew Bailey
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Eurozone inflation
    Eurozone inflation rises to ECB’s 2% target

    Interest rates expected to be kept on hold at central bank’s next meeting after June reading

    A customer with a shopping cart in a Carrefour supermarket in Perpignan, France
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Eurozone inflation
    ‘Supply shocks’ threaten fight against inflation, warns ECB’s Lagarde 

    Structural shifts such as AI and geopolitical fragmentation make world more volatile, says central bank

    The European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    EU economy
    ECB beat inflation without heavy economic costs, says departing hawk

    Veteran Dutch policymaker says central bank would have taken ‘more pain’ to tackle post-pandemic price rises if it had to

    Klaas Knot
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    BoE urged to curb bond sales investors say could ‘reignite’ sell-off

    ‘Quantitative tightening’ is driving up borrowing costs and piling pressure on public finances, according to fund managers

    The Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in London
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Federal Reserve
    White House says decision on nominating next Fed chair not ‘imminent’

    US dollar fell after report that Donald Trump could name nominee to succeed Jay Powell as soon as this summer

    Jay Powell in a composite image with a background of US dollar notes and the Federal Reserve seal
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Central banks
    The Bank of England isn’t sure

    Using cutting-edge language analysis techniques and quantitative reasoning, we prove nothing

  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Eurozone economy
    ECB could still cut rates despite oil market volatility, top policymaker says

    French central bank governor says further easing remains possible as underlying inflation outlook remains unchanged

    French Central Bank Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss central bank cuts rates to zero

    Surge in value of Swiss franc amid US-driven trade war and lagging inflation has complicated policymaking

    View of the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ to slow exit from bond market

    Yields on long-dated government bonds surged to record highs in May

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    Bank of Japan
    Surge in bond yields adds to pressure on BoJ

    Policymakers to decide on how to proceed with tapering of massive bond-buying programme

    The Bank of Japan headquarters building is partially visible through a canopy of lush green trees
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    US quantitative easing
    Ted Cruz has a trillion-dollar idea to reform the Fed

    The right’s fight against bank reserve remuneration has gone transatlantic

  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Central banks can brush aside rising long bond yields Premium content

    Their credibility is strong, the spillovers are small and financial conditions are improving

    FT montage depicting Kazuo Ueda, Jay Powell, Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey behind charts and shapes
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    US inflation
    Senior Fed official puts ‘50-50’ odds on tariffs sparking sustained inflation

    Head of the US central bank’s St Louis branch Alberto Musalem expects uncertainty ‘through the summer’

    Alberto Musalem
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Markets InsightNouriel Roubini
    Biden’s activist Treasury issuance continues under Trump

    Despite past criticism by Scott Bessent and Stephen Miran, the debt strategy persists and is spreading internationally

    Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, right, on the grounds of the White House in Washington, US on June 3 2025
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    The Fed’s demanding next months

    Central bank needs to mix playing defence with going on the offensive with a new policy framework and improved communication

    The Federal Reserve building
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    InterviewUK economy
    Alan Taylor: we have flipped the switch from the ‘great moderation’

    The professor and MPC member on making monetary policy in an age of uncertainty

    Leonie Woods illustration of the portraits of Martin Wolf and Sam Fleming for Economists Exchange
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK interest rates
    BoE is cutting rates too quickly, warns chief economist

    Huw Pill opposed this month’s reduction over inflation concerns

    Huw Pill
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Gilts
    Britain’s quantitative tightening will hurt us for a long, long time

    Ugly QT needs a rethink — fast

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    UK interest rates
    BoE cuts rates by a quarter point to 4.25% in three-way split decision

    Monetary Policy Committee split three ways over decision

    Chart showing the Bank of England bank rate (%) since January 2023
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    White House Watch
    Federal Reserve holds rates steady as it grapples with tariff uncertainty

    Monetary policymakers face increasingly difficult battle figuring out how, and when, to take action

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Q&A: How should central banks navigate the new world order?

    FT journalists answered your questions about the monetary policy picture in the US and the rest of the world

    Montage of Andrew Whiffin, Elettra Ardissino, Chris Giles and Joel Suss with the Federal Reserve
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Chinese economy
    China cuts key interest rate to 1.4%

    Central bank reduces lenders’ reserve requirements as policymakers take action over US trade war

    Pan Gongsheng is seated at a press conference
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Markets InsightSushil Wadhwani
    The UK needs to tackle Trump contagion risk for gilts

    Authorities should take action to encourage a ‘decoupling’ from moves in Treasury yields

    Bank Of England Governor Andrew Bailey
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