The significant drop in Nigeria’s inflation rate from 34.8 per cent in December 2024 to 15.15 per cent in December last year was largely driven by the monetary policy decisions and structural reforms ...

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For most of the past three years, central banks have treated artificial intelligence the way they treat climate change or demographics: a long-horizon force worth monitoring, but not yet an instrument ...

Michelle Bowes is a Sydney-based business and personal finance journalist; author of 'Money Queens: Rule Your Money', a personal financial guidebook for teenage girls; and a personal finance speaker ...

We document the state-dependence of monetary policy transmission to output and core consumer prices in a sample of eleven large inflation-targeting emerging markets along three cyclical dimensions: ...

Financial conditions indexes summarize a broad range of financial indicators with the goal of measuring how financial markets affect economic activity. Evidence from event studies with high-frequency ...

Monetary policy might sound abstract, but you see its effect every day in rates, credit conditions, and market swings. When the central bank shifts its stance, client behavior often changes with it.

Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has cautioned against renewed pressure on the apex bank to return to intervention programmes previously deployed by the institution ...

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

The Open Market Operations Committee has decided to maintain the 'prime interest rate of the Central Bank and other interest ...

Monetary policy is often regarded as having only temporary effects on the economy, moderating the expansions and contractions that make up the business cycle. However, it is possible for monetary ...