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Commentary Last week was characterized by light holiday trading volume due to the July 4th holiday. Traditionally, the stock market rallies going into major holidays, as consumer and investor sentiment ...

Commentary Economists and the general public generally think of inflation as bad. Inflation erodes purchasing power, making goods ...

There’s a new global push for digital currencies, and SWIFT is now planning to roll out a new ...

The world is facing potential economic instability. Central banks all over are tackling inflation. With the global pandemic ...

Commentary The Bank of Canada, as well as other central banks of Western nations, continues to raise interest ...

Commentary On the longest day of the year, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services welcomed Federal Reserve ...

A study by the University of Waterloo suggests that Canada's carbon pricing scheme is creating large financial risks, ...

In a viral exchange back in March, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grilled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over ...

Gold prices are near record highs amid global geopolitical tensions and an ongoing crisis in the U.S. banking ...

Global central bank gold reserves increased by an additional 52 tons in February, representing the 11th consecutive month ...

Central banks have their eye on climate change developments but are unequivocal in their understanding that it falls ...

Commentary In 2022, central banks will have purchased the largest amount of gold in recent history. According to ...

Commentary As U.S. inflation has peaked and edged down slowly, those in Europe are following suit. Yet central ...

Commentary Efforts to curb inflation by central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve, may well trigger a liquidity crisis ...

LONDON—Major developed and emerging market central banks around the globe delivered nearly 1,200 basis points in interest rate ...

Nearly 30 percent of Hong Kong’s foreign currency reserves are now accessible to Beijing after the People’s Bank ...

News analysis Amid soaring inflation, mainland China and Hong Kong central banks chose to respond in opposing ways ...

The prevailing worry is that central banks won’t be able to secure a “soft landing” and avoid a ...

The central banks took a relaxed approach toward inflation last year and must now take "drastic measures" to ...

Commentary After a prolonged period of easy monetary policy, the U.S. Federal Reserve has embarked on a tighter monetary ...

Commentary  A zombie is an aberration, something that shouldn't exist in the real world. Yet in modern economies, ...

News Analysis Energy prices are soaring everywhere, prompting governments to consider support measures to mitigate the financial strain ...

Commentary First, it was the Federal Reserve, then the Bank of England, and finally the European Central Bank ...

ZURICH—Europe's first cross-border trial of central bank digital currency payments has been described as a success by the ...

LONDON—A group of central banks sketched out a potential operating manual for digital cash on Thursday as they ...

STOCKHOLM—Sweden's central bank kept key policy unchanged on Tuesday and forecast the benchmark repo rate would remain at ...

News Analysis As much as Beijing heaves vitriol on cryptocurrencies—having banned all exchanges, issuers, and miners—it has no ...