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After flooding banks with cash, the OECD warns the central bank must now find a way to slowly tighten the money spigot without dealing a painful shock to the recovery. 

The Bank of Japan kept policy steady despite concerns over recent volatility in bond market, saying growth is starting to pick up.

The Richmond Fed president said an improving housing market suggests it is time for the central bank to stop aiming its stimulus at the sector.

With the U.S. inflation rate about half of the Federal Reserve's 2.0% target, the central bank is facing a major test.

Signs of economic weakness may shift the Federal Reserve's debate from ending its quantitative easing program toward a discussion about doing more.

The European Central Bank cut interest rates 0.25-percentage point to 0.5%, the lowest level on record, to help prop up the eurozone’s ailing economy.

The European Central Bank cut interest rates 0.25-percentage point to 0.5%, the lowest level on record, to help prop up the eurozone’s ailing economy.

Global policymakers will discuss the impact of unprecedented monetary policy easing on the world economy at meetings in Washington this week.

A top Federal Reserve official outlined how the central bank should reduce its swelled balance sheet to a more normal size in the years ahead.

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta would not rule out lowering the amount of bonds the U.S. central bank is buying by this summer.

Japan's central bank unleashed a $1.4 trillion, open-ended asset program Thursday as Tokyo looks to jumpstart the economy after decades of stagnation. 

The Bank of England opted not to pump new money into Britain's stagnant economy, despite a new remit that gives it clearer leeway to disregard above-target inflation.

Charles Evans and Jeffrey Lacker sparred over the risks posed to inflation by the U.S. central bank's bold steps to spur growth.

A former president of the Federal Reserve just came out in support for negative interest rates, in effect, forcing consumers and companies to “pay to save.”

Since no rate hike is expected, investors will instead be looking for the Fed to backtrack somewhat on its optimistic forecasts for 2016.

San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said Monday he is unfazed by the weak economic data out of China that has spooked Wall Street, and sees three to five U.S. interest rate hikes this year as reasonable given the strength of the U.S. economy.

Federal Reserve forecasts pointing to four interest rate hikes in 2016 show what the U.S. central bank means when it says it anticipates raising rates at a "gradual pace," Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said on Friday.

A number of banks all announced increases to the so-called prime rate, a key reference rate for a variety of loans including credit-card debt. 

The celebration of the first rate hike in nearly a decade may be short lived for the big banks which now need to focus on another growing risk, cyber terrorism.