financial stability

Global Economy

Financial stability should be central banking's prime objective

(Dec 20): Most modern central banks regard macroeconomic stability — meaning price stability or, in some cases, price stability alongside full employment — as their main goal. But the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank seem to be running out

Global Economy

Stay braced for two more Fed hikes in 2017, economists say

WASHINGTON (June 13): The Federal Reserve will increase interest rates twice more in 2017 and begin shrinking its balance sheet before year’s end despite a clear downturn in the outlook for inflation, according to 43 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
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