Central banks, including the ECB and BoJ, are using negative interest rates to help spur inflation. Unconventional monetary policy has yet to produce the desired effects, leaving central banks ...

Denmark was the first to institute a negative interest rate policy in July 2012, followed by the European Central Bank, Sweden and Switzerland. The latest central bank to join the fray was Japan ...

The SNB reduced its policy rate by 25 basis points from 0.25%, as expected by markets and a Reuters poll, to stand on the brink of negative rates for the first time since 2022.

In March, the ECB doubled down on its negative interest rate policy (Nirp) by cutting the deposit rate by another 10bp to minus 40bp, triggering the 12-month Euribor rate to fall further into negative ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Switzerland could be the first big economy to return to negative interest rates to fight a surging currency and falling prices, highlighting how quickly central bankers may be ...

The era of zero interest-rate policy is back, after the Swiss National Bank on Thursday lowered interest rates to zero. The quarter-point reduction was in line with market expectations and comes ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy has had little positive impact on the economy and prices, over half of economists surveyed by Reuters said.

Mizuho's net interest income - a core measure of banks' profitability - fell 16 percent to 215.6 billion yen. Net interest income is what banks earn from loans and bond and stock investment.