In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

The Bank rate is used as the basis to calculate the payment on due date interest rate. The current bank rate as set on January 30, 2025, is 3.25%. Government of Canada departments use the payment on ...

Wall Street thought the Fed was done lowering interest rates — at least for now. The Jan. 29 announcement of a "pause" proved the money runners were right. "We're not doing anything," the Fed ...

Between tech busts, a financial crisis and a pandemic, not to mention periods of too little inflation and too much, the nation’s central bank has used short-term interest rates, along with other ...

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Investopedia / Michela Buttignol The real economic growth rate, or real GDP growth rate, measures economic growth, as expressed by gross domestic product (GDP), from one period to another ...

Ongoing strength in the U.S. economy drove mortgage rates up over 7% for the first time in eight months, casting doubt over a recovery in the housing sector. The 30-year mortgage rate inched up to ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. The U.S. unemployment rate is released on the first Friday of every month for the preceding month. The current and past ...

In Japan, interest rates are set by the Bank of Japan's Policy Board in its Monetary Policy Meetings. The BoJ's official interest rate is the discount rate. Monetary Policy Meetings produce a ...

It will announce its decisions at the end of its deliberations. The BOJ ended years of negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy target to 0.25% in July. It has signalled a ...

Given that rates take cues from bonds and bonds take cues from economic data, it's perhaps no surprise to see an absence of volatility in rates on a week that has very little to offer in terms of ...