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The positive case for negative rates
By Willem H. BUITER & Ebrahim RAHBARIOnce again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision in December to cut its policy rate to a mere ...
Martin Schlegel, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), announced on Monday that the bank's policy rate could potentially go into negative territory, if deemed necessary. However, he stressed that ...
The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths ...
Inflation in Switzerland is set to remain low this year and may slip below zero some months, according to Swiss National Bank President Martin Schlegel.
Moreover, the SNB has other tools in its armoury, such as outright currency interventions to weaken the Swiss franc. Morgan Stanley reckons that Switzerland’s central bank will continue to defend the ...
The currency pairgained slightly after the SNB chairmans speech. It hit an intraday high of 0.90713 and is currently trading ...
Two months before the SNB’s December rate cut, the bank’s new chairman, Martin Schlegel, made it clear that negative rates could not be ruled out. While financial markets anticipate Swiss ...