central bank policy rates
May 2021 in Figures
May 31, 2021
Commodity prices and many commodity-sensitive currencies performed well during May. The weighted dollar index depreciated 1.2%, squandering all of its rise from the first four months of 2021, and dollar losses in May amounted to 1.5% or more against six of the eight currencies featured in the table below. Although central bank policy interest rates […] More
February 2020 in Figures
February 29, 2020
February 2020 will be long remembered for its final week that saw an historic drop in equity prices around the world related to concerns about the ultimate economic impact of the spreading covid-19 virus. The Dow Jones Industrials Average index fell on each of the final seven business days of February, losing 13.6% in total […] More
July 2019 in Figures
July 31, 2019
Even though only the Fed among major central banks cut interest rates in July, long-term interest rates declined in Europe but changed hardly at all over the course of the month in the United States, Canada, or Japan. The Fed’s 25-basis point interest rate cut announced on the final day of the month was its […] More
