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Interest Rates
Every time the chairman of the FOMC, Janet Yellen, gives a speech everybody is playing the guessing game trying to figure out what’s going to happen with the interest rates. Interest rate can be defined as; ‘The cost of borrowing money expressed as a % of loan value’ Understanding Interest rates is important when talkingContinue Reading
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:16 am
Categories: Analysis
Money Supply
The main role of any central bank is to control a country’s money supply. By decreasing borrowing costs, central banks are effectively increasing the money supply. The money supply is a measure of the entire amount of bills, notes, coins, loans, credit and other liquid instruments in circulation within a country’s economy. Money supply isContinue Reading
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:14 am
Categories: Analysis
Inflation
What is inflation？We’ve spoken about inflation a lot in this module, and in case you haven’t got it yet; put simply inflation is ‘Rising prices’. It can also be described as the sustained increase in the prices of goods and services. What does inflation do？Inflation causes what we call an erosion of the purchasing power ofContinue Reading
Written on December 28, 2020 at 8:12 am
Categories: Analysis
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