Unrelenting inflation prompts fastest rise in global interest rates since 1990s: Fitch

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MG News | June 20, 2022 at 10:58 AM GMT+05:00

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June 20, 2022 (MLN): Unrelenting inflation pressures have prompted the fastest rise in global interest rates since the early 1990s, as central banks move policy rates towards restrictive levels from extreme lows at the start of the year, said Fitch Ratings in its bi-monthly 20/20 Vision report.

According to the Fitch’s report, the US Federal Reserve took market participants by surprise this week by raising interest rates by 75bp, which leaves the Fed funds target rate upper limit at 1.75%.

This was the most aggressive single move by the Fed since 1994, and followed an increase in US CPI inflation to a 40-year high of 8.6% YoY in May, it said

The other developed-market central banks have followed, it added.

“The Swiss National Bank increased its policy rate by 50bp to minus 0.25% and the Bank of England raised rates by 25bp to 1.25%.”

Fitch note that since April’22, central banks in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Korea, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, UK and US have all raised policy rates. At the same time, government bond yields and CPI inflation rates continue to rise across most major economies.

Fitch's bimonthly ‘20/20 Vision’ chart pack covers the 20 major economies that are the focus of Fitch's Economics team's global macro analysis and plots five years of high-frequency economic data for 20 variables, with consistent coverage across each country.

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