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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
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    Minutes from December meeting show policymakers are concerned about US inflation risks

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
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  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
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  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
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    Turkey cuts rates for first time in 22 months with jumbo reduction

    Central bank slashes borrowing costs by 250bp as consumer demand slows

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
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    Fed’s flip-flops risk undermining US exceptionalism

    The central bank’s highly reactive policy approach of recent years amplifies financial volatility

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  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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    The global inflation battle is stalling and diverging

    Trump’s agenda and domestic uncertainty shroud the rate-cutting cycle

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  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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    Why central banks are right to care about the green stuff

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
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    Renewed inflation fears stalk central bankers as markets shudder

    Policymakers say they will only cut rates slowly in 2025 as they struggle with ‘last mile’ of cooling price growth

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    Yen sinks after BoJ holds rates amid caution over Trump’s impact

    Japan’s central bank governor says ‘one more notch’ of information needed to justify raising rates

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Markets InsightRichard Barwell
    A new year’s resolution for central bankers

    Policymakers should commit to publishing estimates of the ‘neutral’ level of interest rates

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
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    Brazil currency sell-off piles fiscal reform pressure on Lula

    Investors issue warning after central bank burns through billions of dollars and lifts rates in attempt to prop up real

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Eurozone interest rates
    ECB’s Lagarde says ‘darkest days’ of high inflation are behind Eurozone

    Central bank president signals borrowing costs are likely to fall further next year

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  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Martin Sandbu
    The ECB cannot pretend any technocratic purity

    Central banks must rise to the geopolitical challenges of the day

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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Eurozone interest rates
    ECB lowers rates to 3% and paves way for more cuts

    Growth forecasts pared back as bank’s president Christine Lagarde says some decision makers wanted larger reduction

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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
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    It’s high time to make Russia pay Premium content

    G7’s $50bn loan is no substitute for transferring blocked foreign exchange reserves to Ukraine

    A Russian flag flutters next to one of the Kremlin towers in downtown Moscow
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Bank of Canada
    Bank of Canada warns Trump’s tariffs will ‘dramatically’ hit growth

    Central bank has slashed borrowing costs five times this year in an effort to combat unemployment and boost growth

    Exterior of the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Can robots replace humans in monetary policy? Premium content

    No, but machines are making some serious progress

    A cleaning robot beside a euro currency symbol in the atrium of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Reserve Bank of India
    India replaces ‘hawkish’ central banker Shaktikanta Das

    Incoming Reserve Bank of India governor Sanjay Malhotra seen as more likely to cut rates despite rising inflation

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