Tag: interest rates

Banking Crisis: Déjà-Vu All Over Again?

Several news sources have raised the volume about a possible systemwide banking crisis. I am not going to contribute to that. In fact, we should all be careful about determining whether or not such a crisis is at hand.

U.S. Debt Crisis: One Step Closer

The cold, hard truth embedded in all these numbers is this: going forward, the U.S. Treasury will have to continue to raise interest rates just to keep investors from selling American government debt.

More Central Banks Raise Interest Rates

The European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde expects the bank “to raise interest rates further over the next several meetings” across the euro zone.

U.S. Interest Rates Rise Again

The Federal Reserve announced its intention to continue to reduce its holdings of U.S. sovereign debt and has no plans to return to buying Treasury securities.

ECB Raises Interest Rates

When the ECB raises interest rates, all other things equal it increases demand for euros on the global foreign-exchange market.