The Berenberg economics team led by Holger Schmieding produced this striking chart, showing how interest-rate expectations ...

As the Fed’s key interest rate ticked up, so did mortgage rates. The upswing cooled the U.S. real estate market as homeowners with lower rates became “locked in.” More relief could be coming ...

Real interest rates are dictated by the rate of inflation. Higher inflation rates erode consumers’ purchasing power and the amount of interest earned from investments such as deposits.

However, our opinions are our own. See how we rate investing products to write unbiased product reviews. The real interest rate accounts for the impact of inflation on the cost of loans and ...

Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate Real interest rates appear to have risen in virtually all industrialized ...

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Using data for Group of Seven, the study finds that measured real interest rates are countercyclical in a single country and that the contemporaneous cross-correlations between international real ...