Negative interest rates are designed to discourage saving and promote spending. Here, we explain how negative interest rates work and what they mean for financial markets. Negative interest rates are ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors are pricing in the possibility the Bank of England will follow other central banks in cutting interest rates to below zero for the first time. Over the past week several ...

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It's not happened before in Britain, but there's a real possibility that interest rates could go below zero in the not-too-distant future. Negative interest rates were considered by the central bank ...

British banks are scrambling to prepare for negative interest rates, with senior leaders warning it could take up to 18 months to ready systems. Executives at British banks have told MPs they are not ...

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The Swiss National Bank doesn’t like negative interest rates but will use them again if needed to stem speculation in the franc, President Martin Schlegel said. Speaking shortly after the central bank ...

The coronavirus outbreak has not only put public health at significant risk, it has also hit the UK economy particularly hard. Many businesses across the UK have been forced to close, or place their ...

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