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‘A neutral 90-day bank bill rate is now under 3.5%’.

“Most FOMC participants, including myself, now anticipate that achieving these conditions will likely entail an initial increase in the federal funds rate later this year, followed by a gradual pace of tightening thereafter“, Yellen said. The late sell-off on Friday...

Though the Fed didn’t raise rates this month, Heidi Richardson explains how to potentially prepare your bond portfolio for the rate regime change. The Fed has been reluctant to shake the boat in the wake of the financial crisis, fearing it could scare off investors and stun...

The Reserve Bank today published a report detailing how it estimates New Zealand’s neutral interest rate. The time for a further 25-bps rate cut is appropriate now.

The agreements include orders and commitments for 300 Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircraft and expanded collaboration between Boeing and China’s commercial aviation industry.

There have been a number of leaks surrounding the Microsoft Lumia 950 and its bigger sibling, the Lumia 950 XL, and recently, it was revealed that the devices would be priced along the lines of the current iPhone 6s lineup.

A lot of sites rely on ads for revenue (journalism and other forms of content creation have to be paid for) and if everyone installed ad-blockers on their browsers, we might start having to pay for content, instead of it being funded by advertising. Several ad-blocking apps...

Gold fell from one-month highs on Friday after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen kept the door open to an increase in USA interest rates this year, sparking a dollar rally, while palladium was on track for its biggest weekly rise in nearly four years.

Oil prices have been going down for more than a year and now, these are trading at less than half of what their peak levels were in 2014, thanks to huge oversupply by oil producers in North America an the Middle East.

While Marco Arment, publisher of the Peace ad blocker pulled down the app from iOS store citing ethical concerns, others seems to be cashing in on this opportunity.

Apple’s move is a double-barrelled effort to boost the health of the so-called app economy while undermining arch rival Google, which dominates the online advertising market. That’s a controversial business model, since it basically holds ads hostage until companies...

Gold dropped from its highest in a month on Friday, giving back some of its sharp overnight gains, as the dollar rallied on an assurance from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that the USA central bank would begin raising rates this year. Gold prices were also falling because...

Where does China go from here? For greater accomplishments, the US role will be to determine the price of status, and the Chinese role will be to determine whether that price is worth paying. This expectation is based on a conditional convergence framework that relies on data...

So this “transition” is as significant – in a long-term sense – as any global economic event of the past 30 years.

Xi said he was aware of risks and challenges facing China’s economy, and was adopting more forceful and innovative macro-economic measures to address them.