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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending 3 August 2016, the MPC voted for a package of measures designed to provide additional support to growth and...

The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent. Inflation in Canada is on track to return to 2 per cent in 2017 as the complex adjustment underway in...

The dollar was at one-week highs against the yen and held its ground on the euro. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli takes a closer look at Friday's employment number and its impact on the fixed income market. more...

China needs to demonstrate that they are on the path of a market-determined exchange rate, says Treasury Secretary Jack Lew weighing in on what China needs to do to take its place on the world's economic stage. more...

Kathy Lien, BK Asset Management, and Michael Gregory, BMO Capital Markets, provide perspective on how rising interest rates will likely impact currencies and fixed income. more...

Valentin Marinov, director of FX strategy at Citi, and John Haynes, head of research at Investec Wealth and Investment, discuss whether U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's time frame for an interest rate hike is reasonable. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli discusses the latest action in the bond market, and the U.S. dollar. more...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera breaks down the surprising interest rate move made by the Turkish central bank to address lira concerns. more...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports the business community in Turkey is desperate for stability in the currency there. more...

Japan's yen extended its pullback early on Wednesday. more...

Sean Callow, Senior Currency Strategist at Westpac Bank, expects the Thai currency to continue underpeforming ahead of a possible interest rate cut from the Bank of Thailand. more...

Valentin Marinov, director of FX strategy at Citi, says there is a carry trade advantage for the Brazilian real. more...

Ray Attrill, Co-Head of FX Strategy at NAB explains why the dollar hasn't caught up with bond market expectations for a 2015 rate hike by the Fed. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli weighs in on the labor force participation rate, which dropped to a 35-year low. more...

Turkey's central bank raised its overnight lending rate by 50 basis points in a bid to prevent a slide in the lira. more...

Sterling held onto gains early on Tuesday while the Australian dollar dangled precariously. more...

Sixteen out of 17 analysts surveyed by Reuters expect the Bank of Korea to keep its base rate unchanged at 3.25 percent for the fourth month in a row at a policy meeting on Thursday, while one predicted a 25-basis-point hike. more...

Asian economies that showed great resilience post the 2008 financial crisis have led the recent global rate tightening cycle, however, threats of a global economic slowdown are now forcing central banks in the region to quickly reverse course. more...