Article: MONEY AND INTEREST RATES (2).(money supply, interest rates: United States, United Kingdom, Canada)(Brief Article)

Article: Give growth a chance: Europe's central bank need be in no hurry ...
The Economist (US);  October 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... corner and who never met a rise in interest rates they didn't like. Certainly, we ... to act pre-emptively- -to raise interest rates soon enough to stop economies from ... argument for why the ECB needs to increase interest rates goes as follows. Interest rates were ...

Article: INTEREST RATES.(financial market and short-term ...
The Economist (US);  June 5, 1999 ;     610 words ... ... look at the volatility of short-term interest rates. As the chart shows, nominal rates ... been extremely volatile. In Asia, interest rates rose sharply in late 1997 and 1998 ... Asian rates have fallen sharply. Thai interest rates are now around 5%, down from a peak ...

Article: Further to fall.(British interest ...
The Economist (US);  January 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The economy Why are British interest rates so much higher than Europe's and America's? THREE cuts in interest rates, totalling 1.25 percentage points ... that much. Britain's official interest rates, at 6.25%, remain the highest ...

Article: Why don't consumers rate credit card break?(credit card ...
Crain's Chicago Business;  November 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... viselike grip on its double-digit interest rates. This hold is not going unnoticed ... income families. It's absurd that interest rates on credit cards haven't come down ... credit cards are a different story. Interest rates on some plastic have come down only ...

Article: Jobs, Not Interest Rates.(raising interest ...
The Nation;  July 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... accounts, the Fed is poised to raise interest rates, in a wholly symbolic anti-inflation ... bondholders, who always want higher interest rates and who like to invent inflation threats ... yields a nonpoverty income. With low interest rates, families in this situation qualify ...

Article: The G7 and the euro-11: Germany and France do not yet need to cut ...
The Economist (US);  October 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... and, this week, Britain-have cut interest rates during the current world financial ... to rescue the world by cutting interest rates. They should ignore this advice ... turn'' of the euro zone to cut interest rates is flawed. A central bank should set ...

Article: Sliding floors: the dollar.(US dollar declines on assumptions of ...
The Economist (US);  September 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... week after the Bank of Japan trimmed interest rates, but that still left it 7% down from ... part because American short-term interest rates, at around 5.5%, are higher than ... markets reckon that the next move in interest rates is more likely to be down, as the ...