Bollard makes rate rise last one for the year
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Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard reckons he has done enough to slow the economy and keep inflation under control after yesterday raising interest rates for the sixth time this year.
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Rates on 30-year and one-year mortgages climbed this week, while rates on some other home loans didn't budge.
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Business groups have broadly welcomed the Bank of England&#39;s decision to keep interest rates on hold this month. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announced at lunchtime on Thursday that they would be maintaining the base rate at 4.75 per cent.
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Interest rates on U.S. 30-year and  15-year mortgages edged higher this week amid signs the economy  is improving, stoking inflation concerns, mortgage finance  company Freddie Mac said on Thursday.
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Don't panic over rising interest rates.
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The rate of increase in U.S. home prices remained steady in the fourth quarter of 2006, extending the slowing trend that began earlier in the year, federal regulators reported yesterday.
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The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday raised short term interest rates for the third time in as many months. The central bank believes the economy has absorbed the sharp rise in energy prices that occurred earlier this year.
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Will it be a matter of &quot;one-and-done&quot; for Alan Greenspan &amp; Co. at its Sept. 21 policy meeting? Since a quarter-point rate hike at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on that date seems a fait accompli
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The Bank of England held its benchmark interest rate steady at a six-year high of 5.5 percent after reports that price inflation is slowing in the services and housing sectors. The bank raised rates last month after three other rises since August apparently failed to cool inflationary pressures and a buoyant housing market. Even after the European Central Bank raised rates Wednesday by a quarter-point, to 4 percent, Britainâs rates remain the highest among the worldâs seven wealthiest nations. Most economists expect a rise of a quarter of a percentage point next month in British rates. as the Bank of England tries to bring consumer price index inflation back to its 2 percent target from its current level of 2.8 percent.
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Short-term interest rates were raised for the fifth time this year on Tuesday. The Federal Reserve has hiked the base rate a quarter-point to 2.25-percent.
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The Bank of England (BoE) announced Thursday it decided to leave its interest rate unchanged at 4.75 percent in September following recent signs of cooling in the property market and a dampening of consumer spending.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 7  - The discovery of life in the American jobs market may keep the Federal Reserve raising interest rates until the end of 2004, analysts said.
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Inflation crept up in December, but the rise in prices will likely do little to hold back another interest rate cut this month.
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The Federal Reserve has hiked benchmark interest rates by one-quarter of one percent for the fifth time this year. At the final scheduled meeting of the year the Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate to 2.25 percent.
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The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than a year and kept the door open for more increases to fight inflation, but did not clearly signal how soon the next move would be. The bank raised its overnight lending rate by one-quarter point, to 4.50 percent, in what analysts see as the beginning of a tightening cycle after the longest pause between rate moves in three decades. Increases in consumer prices in Canada have stayed above the bankâs 2 percent target and will not decline to the desired level until early 2009, the bank said in a less upbeat revision to its April outlook. âI think itâs probably most likely that they will raise rates again in September, but I think the bank has been careful not to signal an overly aggressive stance at this point,â said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.
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British interest rates were kept at 4.75% today amid signs that five rises over the last year had finally put the brakes on house prices and consumer spending.
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Treasury debt prices rose on Wednesday on short covering, but benchmark yields stayed near five-year highs as strong economic data raised the prospect that the Federal Reserve may increase interest rates.