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What to do When Low-for-Long Interest Rates are Lower and for Longer

10.1.2021
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department. ____ Central banks have played a pivotal role in easing financial conditions in response to the COVID-19 shock, and helped avert a catastrophic downturn....

Ethereum: The Last Bastion for Yield

5.1.2021
U.S. Treasury and corporate bonds are returning lower yields than ever. Ethereum's currency ether (ETH) presents an alternative

QE Infinity: US Fed to Keep Rates at Zero, Billion-Dollar Bond Purchases Until Economy Recovers

18.12.2020
This week the U.S. Federal Reserve met for two days at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and detailed that it would keep short-term borrowing rates at near zero. Meanwhile, the Fed also stated that it would continue buying bonds until the U.S. economy returns to full employment....

What Would Negative Interest Rates Mean For Borrowers And Savers?

22.11.2020
Source: Adobe/UMB-O Harry Scheule, Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney. ____ There’s a row brewing in the corridors of financial power. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) recently advised the trading banks that the official cash rate might move from...

UK’s CBDC Could Facilitate Negative Interest Rates - Bank of England

19.11.2020
Should the Bank of England decide to issue a widely used central bank digital currency (CBDC), the move could help the country’s economy to benefit from negative interest rates, according to Andy Haldane, the central bank’s Chief Economist and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee. “On...

300 Banks in Germany Charge Negative Interest Rates Including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, ING

15.11.2020
A new report reveals that more than 300 banks in Germany are now charging some customers negative interest rates. Some are big global banks, including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and ING. 300 Banks Pass on the Burden of Negative Interest Rates to Customers Banks in Germany have been increasingly...

Macro factors could bring Bitcoin to $1 trillion market cap, strategic investor say

12.11.2020
Strategic investor Lyn Alden says 2020 macroeconomic environment is extremely favourable to Bitcoin

Circle’s high-yield USDC business accounts take aim at DeFi

7.11.2020
High yields and frequent interest payments on Circle’s business accounts may be designed to compete with DeFi protocols

US Voting Over, But Near-Zero Interest Rates, Inflation Are Here to Stay

6.11.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...

This Paradigm-Backed Startup Is Offering DeFi’s First ‘T-Bill’

27.10.2020
Newly launched DeFi lending project Yield Protocol is offering stable interest rates for investors

How Stocks, Bitcoin and Other Investments Fare in a 0% Interest Rate World

18.10.2020
On Long Reads Sunday, a reading of a John Street Capital piece on the realities of a market characterized by zero-bound interest rates

Fidelity Digital Assets Touts Bitcoin Credentials, As Publicly Traded Companies Now Hold Over 600,000 BTC

15.10.2020
Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) says diversifying an investment portfolio with bitcoin is especially essential now when benchmark interest rates globally are near or below zero. The opportunity cost of not allocating to bitcoin is simply higher explains FDA in its latest bitcoin investment thesis....

Bank of England Moves Closer to Negative Interest Rates, Asks Banks if They Are Ready

13.10.2020
The Bank of England has moved closer to adopting a negative interest rate policy. The central bank has asked commercial banks in the U.K. to provide details of how ready they are to deal with negative interest rates, asserting that for the policy to be effective, commercial banks need to be ready...

Near-Zero Interest Rates & Resurgent Inflation Are Here to Stay, What to Do?

10.10.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...

Report: Bitcoin Surges With Rising Real Interest Rates and Economic Stimulus While Gold Performs Better With Rising Inflation

8.10.2020
A new report by Bitstamp and Bytetree says bitcoin responds better to the rising money supply, rising real interest rates and a strong economy. This is in contrast to gold which appears to perform better when real interest rates are falling while inflation is rising. To support these findings,...

Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

7.10.2020
Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work

UK Mulls Over Negative Interest Rates, US to Keep Near Zero Rates for Years

18.9.2020
The Bank of England is now seriously considering implementing negative interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates near zero for years. Some analysts say even the Fed will soon consider negative interest rates. Meanwhile, many expect a boost to the price...