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    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Agustín Carstens
      Central banks are not here to make profits

      Making a loss is sometimes the price to pay for keeping economies stable in extraordinary times

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    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
      The paradox of financial conditions

      A gap has emerged between the US central bank and its peers at a time when its policy signals have become at odds with financial conditions

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      ExplainerMarket Questions
      Did the UK economy dodge a recession last year?

      Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A defining moment for central banks

      Monetary policymakers grapple with how to chart a path to terminal rates

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      News in-depthGlobal inflation
      Fed and ECB diverge as Lagarde tackles ‘alive and kicking’ inflation

      European Central Bank president points to several reasons why price pressures will take longer to tame

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      US economy
      The world’s biggest bond fund has a new boss

      Roberto Perli is the new SOMA supremo

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Stocks and bonds soar as investors bet that rates are close to peak

      Central bankers raise borrowing costs but express confidence in battle to control inflation

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      UK interest rates
      Bank of England raises interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to 4%

      Central bank indicates rates may have peaked and now predicts milder recession than before

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
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      Economists detect dovish undertones from ‘more optimistic’ Jay Powell

      Fed chair insists ‘there is a long way to go’ but investors zero in on sanguine comments

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
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      Central bank move to re-peg the currency still leaves the pound far above its parallel black market rate

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
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      Does it matter that central banks are losing squillions?

      The QE flipside — red ink everywhere

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Markets InsightRichard Bernstein
      End the Fed ‘put’

      With the entire credibility of central banking on the line, the focus needs to be on fighting inflation

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      When good economic news may not be good news

      The dilemma for central banks is whether today’s optimism is consistent with returning inflation rates to 2 per cent

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
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      Fallout from US sanctions on Russia helped fuel 18 per cent leap in purchases last year

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      Fed set to signal plans to keep raising rates even as inflation eases

      US central bank officials expected to shift down to quarter-point rise at first gathering of the year

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Central banks set to lift rates to 15-year highs as investor jitters grow

      Concern that bond market rally underestimates growing evidence of persistent inflation

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    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
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      Focus has shifted to the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan after last year’s big increase in US borrowing costs

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
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      The Fed finds itself in a nasty hole

      America’s central bank should have been quicker to tackle the risks of its post-crisis policies

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      Fund points to ‘significant upside risks’ to inflation and calls for flexible approach to controlling bond yields

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