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Increasingly, economists bet that the Bank of Japan will boost its quantitative easing at its next meeting in October.

‘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...

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.

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.

US benchmark crude West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was trading at $46.69 a barrel Thursday at 11:56 a.m. EDT.

Oil prices fell today after the US Federal Reserve kept its main interest rate on hold and following a volatile week for crude.

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

“Asset classes like gold are still expensive and they are fundamentally likely to suffer if US rates go up, if the dollar remain strong“, Manpreet Gill, head of fixed income, currency and commodities investment strategy at Standard Chartered Plc, said in an interview...

US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading down $1.55, or 3.3 percent, at $45.35 a barrel.

Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager who is now chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, was called out by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In addition, fresh pressure from capital market volatility this summer, currency devaluation in emerging markets and slumping global commodity prices are further muddying growth prospects.

“$1.5-trillion of uncommitted spend on new conventional projects and North American unconventional oil is uneconomic at $50 a barrel“, Woodmac added. In July, however, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the Fed would raise rates this year if economic conditions...

The agency expects production to hit a low of 8.6 million barrels a day in mid-2016.

In the us , interest rates have never been lower for longer (for almost seven years) but delay in raising rates also carries increasing risk.