businessday1d
Why CBN may hold benchmark interest rate – Cardoso
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed that the 299th meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), initially scheduled ...
MPC rate cut as a growth enabler
The policy space arising out of the rate cut coupled with credit uptake and prudent fiscal operation would help in evolving ...
Will RBI rate cut reach your EMIs? Govt is watching
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%, influenced by a decline in GDP growth and low inflation. Transmission to bank loan rates may take time due to ...
Opinion
RBI’s cautious policy stance
Central bank’s first interest rate cut in five years is minimal and unsurprising considering the many external volatilities ...
Okay Nigeria6d
Fiscal Excess: MPC Members Sound Alarm on Nigeria’s Economic Woes
MPC members express deep concern over excessive government spending, warning it undermines monetary policy efforts ...
Central Banking6d
Monetary policy can harm its own transmission – IMF paper
The authors, Alessia De Stefani and Rui Mano, gathered data on mortgage flows in 27 economies and mortgage stocks in 35 ...
Nairametrics7d
Excess government spending poses biggest challenge to monetary policy in Nigeria – MPC member
Meanwhile, Ikeazor advocated for more decisive monetary policy actions to curb inflation and maintain economic stability. He noted that while monetary tightening has come at the expense of economic ...
devdiscourse9d
When Cheap Money Isn’t Enough: How Financial Frictions Shape Investment
The IMF working paper explores how financially constrained firms are more attentive to economic conditions and react ...
The Daily Telegraph9d
Russia’s economy faces a ‘slow death’ as its rainy day fund runs dry
But if a lot of the loans in the economy are at subsidised rates, then you have broken the monetary policy transmission ...
The Nation Newspaper9d
Bagudu praises collaboration between fiscal and monetary policy authorities
The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has commended the cooperation between the fiscal and ...
FT9d
Inflation targeting: CB should now drive vehicle by looking through front windscreen and not at rear view mirror
Under the new Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act, abbreviated as CBA, the Central Bank should use inflation targeting as its ...
tbsnews12d
Adopt accommodative monetary policy instead of an ultra-tight one: Task force on economy
Bangladesh Bank should adopt an accommodative monetary policy instead of an ultra-tight monetary policy, as recommended by the task force on re-strategising the economy and mobilising resources for ...