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This article reviews the monetary policy interest rate activity of the world's central banks during 2011. The major theme of the year was monetary policy tightening, but the second half of the year featured many banks opting to reverse course or switch to outright net loosening. Indeed of the 87 Read More

The year of 2011 was an interesting and eventful year in monetary policy. As the chart below shows, the GDP weighted average interest rate of central banks crept up in the first half of the year as commodity prices remained buoyant, economic recoveries showed signs of gaining momentum, and inflati Read More

The past week in monetary policy featured decisions from 8 central banks around the world from Europe to Africa. Those that changed interest rates were; Sweden -25bps to 1.75%, Hungary +50bps to 7.00%, and Russia -25bps to 8.00%. Meanwhile, those that announced no changed to interest rates were; Read More

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The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions announced by 6 central banks around the world. Of those changing rates, Georgia dropped -25bps to 7.00%, Egypt increased +100bps to 9.25%, and Colombia increased +25bps to 4.75%. Meanwhile those that held interest rates unchanged were T Read More

The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions announced by 9 central banks around the world. Of those that changed interest rates (all dropping rates) were: Indonesia -50bps to 6.00%, Serbia -75bps to 10.00%, and Jamaica -50bps to 6.25%. Meanwhile those that held interest rates unc Read More

The past week in monetary policy saw 8 interest rate changes announced among the 12 central banks that met to review policy settings. Of those changing interest rates, those that increased rates were: Uganda +300bps to 23.00%, Kenya +550bps to 16.50%, and Iceland +25bps to 4.75%. Meanwhile those Read More

The past week in monetary policy saw 10 central banks reviewing monetary policy settings, with just 1 (Nigeria +50bps to 9.25%) changing interest rates. Those that held rates unchanged were: Morocco 3.25%, Turkey 5.75%, Hungary 6.00%, Norway 2.25%, USA 0.25%, Iceland 4.50%, Hong Kong 0.50%, South Read More

The past week in monetary policy saw 13 central banks review interest rate levels and monetary policy settings. Those that changed rates were: Belarus +300bps to 30.00%, Kenya +75bps to 7.00%, and India +25bps to 8.25%. Russia and Denmark also adjusted the bands of their deposit and lending rates Read More

The past week in central banking saw interest rate announcements from 17 central banks around the world. Just 4 of those central banks announced changes to interest rates: Armenia cut by -50bps to 8.00%, Tunisia cut by -50bps to 3.50%, and Serbia cut by -50bps to 11.25%, while Uganda increased by Read More