Explore how a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) works, why central banks use it, and see real-world examples from Europe ...

Economic conditions do not immediately suggest a negative interest rate policy is around the corner, but it could still become a reality if the economy goes south. The only reason negative rates are ...

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The Bank of Japan is widely expected to scrap the world’s last negative interest rate in the coming weeks, marking the closing act of global central banks’ grand experiment with unorthodox policies.

After many years of low and negative interest rates, the Bank of Japan has changed course, creating opportunities for Japanese investors and implications for global markets. The impact of the policy ...

TOKYO—The world’s nearly 12-year experiment with negative interest rates is over now that the last holdout, the Bank of Japan, has moved its key policy rate back to at least zero. Of the many unusual ...

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 ...

The age of negative interest rates might not be over. Martin Schlegel, the head of the Swiss National Bank, discussed that possibility after the bank brought interest rates down by a half point to 0.5 ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan is likely to move slowly in raising interest rates above zero even if it decides to end its negative interest-rate policy, given the nation’s fragile momentum on prices, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of negative rates meant to boost the economy. The Bank of ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss inflation turned negative in May, marking the first decline in consumer prices for more than four years and adding pressure on the Swiss National Bank to cut its interest rate ...

The Swiss National Bank kept its interest rate at zero, judging that a weakened inflation outlook doesn’t yet justify a return to negative borrowing costs.