Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. The idea of ...

By Willem H. BUITER & Ebrahim RAHBARIOnce again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision in December to cut its policy rate to a mere ...

The European Central Bank cut rates on Thursday, the Bank of Canada on Wednesday, and the Bank of England is likely to do so next week.

The Bank of Japan announced March 19 it will end negative interest rates and review other ultra-loose monetary policies that have been in place for more than a decade to buoy the stagnant economy ...

The Swiss franc could appreciate in coming months as the Swiss National Bank is unlikely to return to negative interest rates, Commerzbank analyst Michael Pfister says in a note. The SNB will ...

The idea of negative interest rates may seem counterintuitive, if not downright crazy. In a world where lenders make money by charging their customers interest, why would they be willing to pay ...

Although negative nominal interest rates are widely scorned, they are regularly used to supplement the monetary-policy arsenal when inflation is low and economic activity is weak. Given the dearth of ...

Once again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision in December to cut its policy rate to a mere 0.5%. When this issue has come ...