The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

With the RBA review now closed for submissions, the hope is that the bank will take advantage of an opportunity for real changes to the creation of monetary policy.

The Australian Greens say the federal government's review of the Reserve Bank should re-imagine how monetary policy should work for the 21st century.

TMBThanachart Bank (ttb) expects to increase its loan interest rates by at least 0.5-0.6% next year, in line with the Bank of Thailand's monetary policy normalisation.

Türkiye should tighten monetary policy and give its central bank more independence, a mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. "To address (Türkiye’s) challenges, the mission recommended early policy rate hikes accompanied by moves to strengthen the central bank's independence," said the IMF in a press release.…

US jobs figures are keeping monetary policy in the spotlight after a week of outsized interest rate movements ended with more strong jobs growth, opening the way for more big hikes.

What Was the Great Inflation?The Great Inflation was a period of high inflation in the U.S. from 1965 to 1982. Some economists, though, limit the timeframe to the 1970s, when inflation peaked and subsided before peaking again. The government passed a series of measures and legislation to ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warns ‘we still have some ways to go’ on curbing inflation

The Fed said it will "take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments" when assessing future rate hikes.

Analysts are predicting the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee will vote to up its rate by 0.75 percentage points, from 2.25% to 3% this afternoon - in what would spell more misery for homeowners

The market has started the week on a negative note after a strong October. The near-term direction of the market largely hinges on what the Fed’s monetary policy-setting arm — the Federal Open Market Committee — does on Wednesday.

"The history of developed countries since 1970 is very discouraging about the prospects of bringing down 8 percent inflation," says Larry Summers.