"The current high level of interest rates will increase default rates of leveraged companies. For over two decades, American companies benefitted significantly from a relatively benign interest rate environment and borrowed extensively via _...Read More_

>"Annual rate still above 10% as grocery prices soar, leaving MPC on course for another increase"

>"Troubles at Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse are due partly to impact of rising interest rates"

>"An end to ultra-low rates mean borrowers can only afford smaller mortgages"

>"UK economy faces ‘very challenging outlook’ with recession now expected to last until middle of 2024"

"Surging inflation and an ongoing economic slowdown should have hurt demand for the US dollar, and yet the greenback is at a 20-year high. The US economy’s relative strength and the Fed’s rapid monetary tightening will likely keep the _...Read More_

"Thirty-five years after former US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker left office (and nearly three years after his death), the mere mention of his name still gives shivers to Latin Americans who remember the economic devastation caused by _...Read More_

>"MPC members will look at other developments in UK and abroad in mission to increase interest _...Read More_

"With recent data showing that both inflation and inflation expectations have eased, it would be irresponsible for the US Federal Reserve to create much higher unemployment. Amid so much uncertainty, it should instead pause interest-rate _...Read More_

"Central banks are having to choose between ruinous inflation or ruinous interest rates."

>"Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said she sees rates rising considerably higher before the central bank can _...Read More_

>"Jeffrey Frankel argues that slower global growth and higher real interest rates suggest a persistent downward trend."

>"Markets are undergoing a seismic shift as the era of supersized returns and ultra-cheap money comes _...Read More_

"Restrained approach likely reflects concerns over rising debt, diminishing returns from spending."

>"The latest on the UK base rate rise and how it might affect your finances"