The Latest Breaking News from Interest Rates

A senior Reserve Bank official says the prevalence of fixed-rate loans and sizeable savings buffers are likely extending the lag time of interest rate hikes.

The name's Bond – unhedged Treasury bond. Jonathan Milne argues that bond traders have again become sexy, for all the wrong reasons.

Interest rates are doing little to help those attempting to crack into the market for a place to live, but there are other structural problems that lie at the foundation.

We now know what happens when central banks raise rates and reverse QE

Exclusive: David Blanchflower urges rethink after collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and lifeline thrown to Credit Suisse

Silicon Valley Bank invested billions of dollars in super safe U.S. government bonds. But that choice exposed to the bank to a whole other set of risks.

The global economic outlook has improved from a few months ago as the inflation shock eases but rising interest rates will keep risks high, the OECD said on Friday, hiking its growth forecasts for major economies. After growth last year of 3.2%, the world economy is on course to expand…

When Silicon Valley and Signature banks failed in early March 2023, government regulators rushed in to guarantee deposits and protect bank customers. Under current banking regulations, though, there was no obligation for the government to step in.

The bad news will follow for fixed and variable rate customers too as the main banks always pass the increase down the line

In the middle of a market panic that has felled two US banks and pushed several others to the brink, the European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates by another 0.5 percentage points. The ECB’s president, Christine Lagarde, had been warning this was necessary to bring eurozone inflation back…

Was it the result of Trump-era regulation rollbacks, risk mismanagement at the bank, sharp interest rate rises – or a combination of all three?