The Latest Breaking News from Monetary Policy

When Zimbabwe’s finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented the national budget for 2023 to Parliament in November 2022, he placed high emphasis on a raft of initiatives designed to spur strong economic growth and unleash economic transformation. These included financing of infrastructure projects, education, health, value chains and other public investments.

Jonathan Haskel, an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, said a wave of investment was ‘stopped in its tracks’ in 2016.

The main worry is workers might demand more pay, employers will pass that on to prices, and a wage-price spiral will take off

No, it must accept one, per conventional wisdom. But Europe’s showing another way, though it won’t be painless either.

Brazil's central bank newfound independence that was designed to shield it from politics has turned it into a convenient punching bag for the new government that can use it to fire up its leftist base and blame it for economic woes.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India decided to raise the key benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

The investment outlook remains volatile in 2023 due to monetary policy tightening and geopolitical risks, but China and the rest of Asia will likely benefit from the reopening of borders, says Eastspring Asset Management (Thailand).

Last week it was the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee shaping monetary policy and investor expectations. In the week ahead, it will be the Fed’s open mouth practices at work.

Decision makers on the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opted to hike the base rate from 3.5% to 4%.

Monetary Policy Committee says inflation may have peaked in the UK

Differing experts have urged the Monetary Policy Committee to both cut interest rates and to raise them