negative interest rates

(Dec 9): Almost five weeks since Mario Draghi retired from running the European Central Bank (ECB) and finding an outright fan of his legacy of negative interest rates has become a lot harder.

SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser (CEA) at Allianz, thinks there are many more consequences of ultra-low interest rates that have yet to play out for investors, and that gold is increasingly part of the solution to mitigating su

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Household spending in Japan has bucked conventional economic theory, falling 0.5% in July even as the unemployment rate fell to 3% in the same month, says a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.