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Switzerland may become the first advanced economy to revive negative interest rates, as inflation turned negative in May for ...

Negative interest rates are designed to discourage saving and promote spending. Here, we explain how negative interest rates work and what they mean for financial markets. Negative interest rates are ...

In such a situation, we say the real interest rate—the nominal rate minus the rate of inflation—is negative. In modern times, central banks have charged a positive nominal interest rate when lending ...

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 ...

It sounds counterintuitive, but with the coronavirus throwing the global economy into a tailspin, some banking systems in other countries are offering negative interest rates on savings accounts ...

Switzerland could be the first big economy to return to negative interest rates to fight a surging currency and falling ...

Swiss inflation turned negative in May, marking the first decline in consumer prices for more than four years and adding ...

Negative interest rates are designed to discourage saving and promote spending. Here, we explain how negative interest rates work and what they mean for financial markets. Negative interest rates are ...

The idea of negative interest rates may seem counterintuitive, if not downright crazy. In a world where lenders make money by ...

While other central banks are also dealing with the fallout of a weaker dollar, Switzerland has the lowest rates among big ...