ECB goes big with 50bps rate hike
But is its first rate rise in 11 years too little, too late?
Interest Rates
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Surprise as BoE maintains interest rate
Despite a sharp rise in inflation expectations
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Federal Reserve predicted to hold rates until 2023
As Bank of England also votes to maintain at 0.1%
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Why high net worths should flock to angel investing
Especially as negative interest rates bite
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Learning how Japanese insurers manage low interest rates
German insurers likely to follow footsteps of Asian counterparts within their limits, says Fitch Ratings
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Is a floor on bond yields on the cards?
ECB shows reluctance to cut rates but deflation could force its hand
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What could sustainable exit from covid-19 ‘debt trap’ look like?
The effectiveness of monetary policy in an era of low interest rates
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Negative rates are the ‘new normal’ says NN IP
Dutch asset manager cautions against moving into riskier and illiquid assets
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ECB launches new stimulus to boost ailing eurozone
Central bank will hold auctions of multi-year loans at low rates and will not raise interest rates until 2020
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ECB ‘will not raise rates in 2019’
Market has been anticipating rate rise towards summer end, but raft of weak data will force backtrack, analysts say
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Developed market worries may be EM entry point: Ashmore
There is a clear opportunity to buy emerging market assets whenever risk averse events are triggered in the developed markets, and current worries over US trade policy and rate hikes could signal the latest entry point, says Ashmore’s Jan Dehn.
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Stark: ECB interference causes ‘unintended consequences’
The European central banks’ market interventions, such as their asset purchase programme, has created the “unintended consequence” of the institutions becoming a dominant decision maker in investments, and has led to risk not being priced properly, according to ex-ECB chief economist Jürgen Stark.