Explore the meaning of a negative interest rate environment, its economic implications, and how it affects banks, consumers, and investments globally.

ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank sees a high bar before reintroducing negative interest rates, chairman Martin Schlegel said in his last interview before the central bank's monetary policy ...

The Swiss franc is widely viewed as a safe haven asset, rising in value in times of geopolitical or macroeconomic uncertainty ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss inflation turned negative in May, marking the first decline in consumer prices for more than four years and adding pressure on the Swiss National Bank to cut its interest rate ...

The Swiss National Bank is set to offer clues on just how high its bar is for a return to negative interest rates with a decision expected to keep them at zero. Despite both a surge in the franc and ...

Economists have largely abandoned forecasts that the Swiss National Bank will cut interest rates into negative territory, according to a Bloomberg survey. Just two forecasters — Barclays and Bloomberg ...

The world envies Swiss chocolate, army knives, and now . . . interest rates? Swiss National Bank, Switzerland’s central bank, moved interest rates to zero this week, a reduction of 25 basis points, ...

Remember negative interest rates? Back in early 2020, as the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks across advanced economies rushed to slash interest rates, offering cheaper ...

ZURICH, April 7 (Reuters) - Market turmoil unleashed by U.S. trade tariffs has boosted the Swiss franc, piling pressure on the country's export-oriented economy and potentially pushing the Swiss ...

Focusing on rates of change is what led me to conclude three years ago that we would avoid a recession and eventually realize a soft landing for the economy. The rate of inflation was peaking and ...

December 10, 2025. That's the date when the final Federal Reserve meeting will conclude its final 2025 meeting and, with it, a now widely anticipated reduction to the federal funds rate. A rate drop ...