The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

Gold prices retreated from one-year highs on Thursday as the dollar regained some ground, while investors awaited the US non-farm payrolls report to gauge the Federal Reserve's monetary policy strategy. Spot gold fell 0.4% to $2,013.13 per ounce by 0701 GMT, after hitting its highest since March 2022 on Wednesday.

The Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep the key benchmark interest rate - repo rate - unchanged at 6.5 per cent with readiness to act should the situation so warrant, Governor Shaktikanta Das announced on Thursday, after a two-day monetary policy (MPC) meeting. Read further on Dynamite News:

Silvana Tenreyro has been one of the Monetary Policy Committee’s most consistently dovish members

Millions of Australian homeowners were spared another increase in their mortgage bills on Tuesday when the RBA paused interest rates.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will hold a periodic meeting on Thursday when options to contain successive shocks to the Egyptian economy remain limited before growing local and global crises. CBE will likely raise interest rates at today’s meeting to curb inflation, which…

Inflation needs to be brought under better control before the Federal Reserve starts reversing its monetary policy of boosting interest rates, a Miami-based regional executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said Tuesday, during a regional economic summit at Key Biscayne.

Rekindled recession worries amid upheaval in the banking sector and the Fed’s further tightening of monetary policy could keep the stock market volatile in the near term. Given this backdrop, we think the strong growth prospects of UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Danaher Corp. (DHR), and ServiceNow (NOW) make these stocks solid…

Brazil's central bank monetary policy director Bruno Serra has left his position at his request, according to the official gazette on Monday, backdated to March 23, while the new administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has yet to announce a replacement candidate.

The Bank of England is faced with the sort of choice that central bankers prefer not to confront. Inflation is far too perky, which warrants higher interest rates. The global financial system, however, is in an unexpected state of stress: the financial “central heating” is on the blink. Past financial…

The foundation of China's economic recovery is not solid enough, a senior Communist Party official said on Saturday, warning of possible spillover effects from global economic problems. Some countries have to play a balancing act as they try to stabilize their economies, prices and financial markets, said Han Wenxiu, deputy…

History remembers Paul Volcker as the slayer of inflation, and Ben Bernanke as the crisis firefighter. Jerome Powell is in danger of having to play both roles at once — or, what may be worse, to choose between them.