I hope the readers of the Bucks Free Press had a joyful festive season, and I extend my warmest wishes for a happy and healthy 2025.

After taking the helm in April 2023, Ueda dismantled his predecessor’s radical stimulus program in March last year and pushed up short-term interest rates to 0.25% in July.

He said he would ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to lower the price of oil and "with oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately," he told the crowd of business leaders and ...

The bond market's moves might seem strange given that the Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates three times starting in September. But it’s a reminder that markets care more about the ...

The fed funds rate determines how much financial institutions charge each other when lending or borrowing excess reserves. That, in turn, influences interest rates on everything from mortgages to ...

TOKYO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts, underscoring its ...

Although inflation and an aggressive interest rate hike campaign courtesy of the Federal Reserve made borrowing more costly for many Americans in 2022 and 2023, there was a silver lining for ...

"With the interest rate cuts, we expect the discretionary spending of the consumer to actually go up, and with that being the case we expect that to have a flow on with our business and we should ...

Fixed income markets anticipate that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in 2025, but not by much. Short-term interest rates are expected to end 2025 close to 4%. That’s down from the ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its confidence that rising wages will keep inflation stable around its 2% ...

Markets hope that Trump's pro-business agenda ... the case for rate cuts in 2025. The latest inflation report slashed the risk that the Fed could go back to hiking interest rates this year ...