Negative interest rates occur when prices begin to start dropping to low levels as the value of a nation's currency increases. At these times, central banks may resort to negative interest rates. The ...

Swiss National Bank Chairman Martin Schlegel has not ruled out taking the central bank's policy rate into negative territory ...

Central banks are starting to flirt with the idea of negative interest rates, though not without rethinking previously held assumptions about what is possible in terms of policy ECB headquarters, ...

The European Central Bank cut rates on Thursday, the Bank of Canada on Wednesday, and the Bank of England is likely to do so next week.

The age of negative interest rates might not be over. Martin Schlegel, the head of the Swiss National Bank, discussed that possibility after the bank brought interest rates down by a half point to ...

Bank of Japan policymakers discussed the likelihood of raising interest rates further with some warning of upside inflation ...

The Swiss National Bank still has room to cut interest rates again and even take rates below 0% if Swiss inflation goes too ...

The Bank of Japan announced March 19 it will end negative interest rates and review other ultra-loose monetary policies that have been in place for more than a decade to buoy the stagnant economy ...

Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years, after consumer price rises ...

Japan's central bank has raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, noting that inflation is holding at a ...