As the U.S. Federal Reserve did a day earlier, the European Central Bank (ECB) added a quarter point to its key interest rate on 27 July, bringing it to 3.75 percent. It began raising the rate in July 2022, when it was -0.50 percent.
Tag: Federal Reserve
FED RAISES INTEREST RATE TO 22-YEAR HIGH
On 26 July, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee voted unanimously to add another quarter point to its interest rates, raising them to 5.25 percent on deposits and 5.5 percent on loans, their highest since 2001.
CONSENSUS BUILDS AROUND “SOFT LANDING,” END TO FED’S RATE HIKES
Analysts and investors are coalescing around the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve has tamed inflation without knocking the U.S. economy into a recession—creating a “soft landing”—and will end its series of interest rate increases, perhaps as soon as next month.
THE BET: TWO MORE FED RATE HIKES THIS YEAR
All 11 voting members of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee agreed to defer an interest rate increase in June’s meeting, the session's newly-released minutes show.
CHIEFS OF FEDERAL RESERVE, BANK OF ENGLAND REMAIN INTEREST RATE HAWKS
Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey both signaled that they expect, and support, moves by their banks to continue raising interest rates.
FED PROBABLY WILL HIKE RATES MORE SLOWLY, POWELL SAYS
After raising interest rates 10 times in as many meetings, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is likely to move rates higher less often, Fed chair Jerome Powell told the House financial services committee on 21 June.
EXPECT AN INFLATIONARY DEPRESSION
Collectively world central banks have been working in concert for many decades to devalue their respective currencies-FASTER. Moreover, this process of devaluation is going to accelerate.
FED RAISES KEY RATE A QUARTER POINT: WHAT’S NEXT?
The U.S. Federal Reserve added a quarter point to its key interest rate last week, lifting the yield it pays on deposits to 4.75 percent and the rate it charges borrowing banks to 5 percent.
CENTRAL BANKS MUST NOW HYPERINFLATE, AND YOU WILL PAY FOR IT
For those of you who may not know, I am going to let you in on a nasty secret. THE POWER OF ANY GIVEN CENTRAL BANK RESIDES IN ONLY ONE THING, AND ONE THING ONLY… ITS ABILITY TO INFLATE.
THE U.S. HAS THE WORLD SETUP FOR A WORSE FINANCIAL CRISIS THAN IN 2008
There are two main avenues to a potential U.S. financial crisis. Such a crisis, because of U.S. financial dominance and because of the interconnections of globalism, which was a huge mistake for humanity, would be international.