A short-term slowdown today to create better growth prospects tomorrow would be a cure almost as destructive as the disease

The ECB and Bank of England may find it hard to match the level of interest rate hikes coming from the Fed, says Moneycorp Europe’s Shane Murphy

Kaspar Elmgreen, head of equities at Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, says that his company is seeing a big fall in consumer confidence in a number of countries

Global assets manager for €133 billion portfolio says a reversal is urgently needed for the world economy’s ‘extreme imbalance of capital and liquidity relative to investment demand’

Globalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising

International finance professor Sergio Rebelo says the lift in interest rates needs to accelerate to avoid repeat of 1970s crisis

Interest rates are set to rise in 2022, with big implications for homeowners, people and businesses with high borrowings, and the trade and investment that keep the global economy moving

The US Federal Reserve is sending out signals that it intends to wind down quantitative easing, but it needs to proceed with caution, for many reasons

Economists are divided on whether the country faces surging inflation or slowing growth as the rampant Delta variant undermines forecasts

The ambition of central bankers once was to ‘be boring’ but they now take on responsibility for policy objectives such as tackling inequality and climate change. Not all onlookers are pleased at this ‘self-defined mission creep’