negative interest rates

Global Economy

Negative rates are starting to worry ECB officials

(Dec 9): Almost five weeks since Mario Draghi retired from running the European Central Bank (ECB) and finding an outright fan of his legacy of negative interest rates has become a lot harder.

Commodities

How gold is the answer to investing in a low-interest rate world

SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser (CEA) at Allianz, thinks there are many more consequences of ultra-low interest rates that have yet to play out for investors, and that gold is increasingly part of the solution to mitigating su

Higher employment means higher household spending right? Not in Japan

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Household spending in Japan has bucked conventional economic theory, falling 0.5% in July even as the unemployment rate fell to 3% in the same month, says a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.
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