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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 ...

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 (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) -The Swiss National Bank sees a high bar before reintroducing negative interest rates, chairman Martin Schlegel said in his last interview before the central bank's monetary policy ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Mary O'Grady, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly What goes down must come up in the ...

More than two years ago, seeking to revive a moribund economy, the European Central Bank (ECB) embarked on a new monetary policy measure: charging interest on excess liquidity that banks held at the ...

The Bank of Japan's decision to tighten monetary policy on Tuesday marked the end of a 12-year global era of negative interest rates. Since 2012, the Danish central bank, the European Central Bank, ...

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 ...

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.

We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel of over 5,100 banks in 27 countries. Our data set includes annual observations ...