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Bank of Canada Raises Rates as Inflation Lingers and Slowdown Looms

Commentary The Bank of Canada (BoC) has raised the key overnight rate to 5 percent and the Bank Rate to 5.25 percent. The increases of one-quarter of a percent were ...

July 12, 2023BY Tom Czitron

Don’t Let the Fed Pause Become a Fed Surrender to a Higher Inflation Target Rate

The Federal Reserve announced on June 14 that it has "paused" its relentless pace of interest-rate hikes for ...

June 19, 2023BY J.G. Collins

Mortgage Rates Soar, Currently Above 6 Percent

Interest rates on mortgages have spiked above 6 percent amid fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve could raise ...

June 15, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully

US Mortgage Interest Rates Hit 4 Percent First Time in Over Two Years

Interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have exceeded 4 percent for the first time in more than two ...

February 17, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully

Bank of Canada Keep Key Rate at 0.25%, Warns of Economic Decline in 2021

OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada says the national economy will go in reverse for the first quarter of 2021, ...

January 20, 2021BY The Canadian Press

Argentina Hikes Interest Rate to 60 Percent, Peso Plunges

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentina's Central Bank on Aug. 30 increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent—the world's highest—in ...

August 30, 2018BY The Associated Press