Lagarde, who took control of the ECB only months before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, argued that a more uncertain ...

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde said the world economy faced pressures similar to those of the 1920s.

Central banks face a "difficult balancing act" as they start lowering interest rates around the world in the face of falling inflation, the head of the IMF said recently.Central banks on both sides of ...

Most American voters don’t know enough about their economy to make decisions based on it. The gap between what voters think ...

The world's major central banks are now all clearly in the early stages of a monetary easing cycle that could end up lasting ...

Rate-cutting cycles in recent decades – such as in the early 2000s, or during the financial crisis of 2007 – have tended to ...

Central banks have been clueless about handling inflation, and their constant flip-flopping with interest rates shows they ...

THE US Federal Reserve’s preferred price metric and a snapshot of consumer demand are seen corroborating both the central ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred price metric and a snapshot of consumer demand are seen corroborating both the central bank’s aggressive interest-rate cut and Chair Jerome Powell’s view that the ...

Policymakers are lowering rates but few are ready to declare victory.

Asian stocks rose on expectations that China may deliver more stimulus to revive the world’s second-largest economy after the US kicked off its easing cycle. Gold touched a record high.

Asian stocks rose along with US equity futures on expectations that China may deliver more stimulus to revive the world’s second-largest economy.