Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to ...

Chinese state-backed funds have stopped making new investments in U.S. private equity as part of a broader strategic ...

UK central bankers should stop selling the bonds they acquired during the pandemic to take pressure off borrowing costs.

The Bank of England temporarily halted the sale of long-dated bonds under its quantitative tightening program, bowing to ...

The central bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has warned that the global tariffs imposed on trade could severely rock ...

Both central banks are nervous about the potential inflationary impact of President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs on goods imported to the US. In the UK, the ‘wait-and-see’ approach of ...

Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is fast becoming Trump’s most serious domestic opponent and making him ...

Inflation in the U.K. fell for the second month running in March largely as a result of lower prices at the pump, a move that is likely to pile pressure on the Bank of England to cut interest rates ne ...

Jonathan Haskel, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, has said rates should be kept on hold - ...