Deputy governor of Sveriges Riksbank reflects on how monetary policy promotes inclusive growth

Bank of Japan board member Takako Masai on Wednesday advocated sticking with ultra-easy monetary policy due to uncertainty over how fast inflation will rise, while warning that the central bank should remain on guard against the possible side-effects.

British employers plan to hire more workers and raise pay more quickly in 2018, but they also fear that Brexit will make the country a less attractive place to do business, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Deputy governor says his position has shifted with benefit of hindsight

Conviction weakens in central bank dovishness after governor hints at ‘reversal rate’

Prolonged ultra-easy monetary policy is weighing heavily on Japanese bank profits but financial institutions should not expect business conditions to brighten dramatically even after the central bank raises interest rates, a senior Bank of Japan official said.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s new assumption that global inflation will stay lower for longer means it is more exposed to the risk of prices picking up, Acting Governor Grant Spencer said.

Moving into two straight weeks of U.S. holiday travel, AAA said there could be some relief at the pump, but gas prices are expensive by historic standards.

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The Bank of Japan should add more monetary stimulus to the economy now to help bolster inflation in advance of a sales-tax hike, according to a prominent reflationist.

After a difficult year of store closings and retail struggles, holiday sales and the U.S. job market appear to be riding a surge, statistics showed Tuesday.

Jennifer Shutek is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University, Steinhardt, where she is pursuing research projects on several interwoven topics, including: the social functions of generosity among West Bank Palestinians, the semiotics of agricultural images in Zionist and Palestinian propaganda

Central bank resumes tightening path as Mexican economy faces trade and currency challenges

British factories matched a three-decade high for orders this month, a survey showed, adding to signs that manufacturers are riding high even as Britain's Brexit-bound economy remains slow.

Workers will see a 1 percent increase in their total earnings next year, the most since 1997, as rising profits and the tightest labor market in decades ad

It seemed at the time like a somewhat random, and amazingly fortuitous, coincidence.

The Federal Reserve should be okay with allowing U.S. inflation to run at 2.7 percent for five years, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said on Wednesday, embracing a view that is not widely shared at the U.S. central bank but reflects his generally dovish policy stance.

Many Britons seem to have tightened their belts this festive season in an early sign that retailers won’t have received much of a boost from the holidays.

The next governor of the Bank of Japan faces a “job from hell,” according to Takeshi Fujimaki, a banker-turned-lawmaker who sees any attempt by Japan’s central bank to exit its program of unprecedented easing as triggering a Greek-like debt crisis.

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Britain may be running out of workers, according to some of the UK’s biggest business groups, with recruiters reporting that they face growing difficulties wit

U.K. consumer confidence slipped to a four-year low in December and risks weakening further in 2018, according to a report Thursday.

U.K. workers are due for another year of wage pain as Brexit uncertainty and faster inflation deliver a real-terms pay cut, according to a new report.

Cheaper petrol pushes UK inflation to lowest since March 2017

In a wide-ranging note on cryptocurrencies and blockchain, Credit Suisse explored the concentration of wealth in bitcoin.

Conservative prime minister pushes hard for pay rises to help boost consumption

The Fed just gave us some information about its plans for the future.

Two-thirds of Japanese firms think the government's push to raise wages by 3 percent is a tall order, with some dismissing it out of hand, a Reuters poll found, underscoring deep corporate reluctance to boost fixed costs despite huge cash piles.

The rhetoric coming from the Riksbank suggests the odds of interest-rate hikes have increased.

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The Bank of Japan released its latest monetary policy statement on Thursday.

Measures to curb the use of cryptocurrencies have been gaining momentum across Asia.

Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.

Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan is "actively considering" supporting another increase in short-term interest rates at the central bank's meeting in December, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

The Federal Reserve will need to "look hard" at whether it should raise rates in December, but there is no need to wait for inflation to actually get to, or even begin to rise back to, the Fed's 2-percent target before doing so, a Fed policymaker said Monday.

No one is around to make sure you can buy or sell at a moment's notice.

Tighter trade policies, which President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on, could pose a downside risk for the U.S. economy, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Thursday.

Deutsche Bank, which has loaned the Trump Organization millions of dollars for real-estate ventures, said it would not comment on any of its clients.

The Bank of England kept its key interest rate at a record low and noted that the pound’s recent appreciation may mean a slower pickup in inflation next year.

Britain’s housebuilding industry put a recovery on hold in June as construction firms delayed projects ahead of the general election that culminates Thursday.

Sydney's property market slump has just reached a new milestone, with values falling more than in the late 1980s before the recession we had to have.