Interest rates

Canada's banking regulator said the country's mortgage stress test has helped prevent widespread defaults as interest rates rose this year, rebuffing calls to weaken or eliminate the measure amid a surge in homebuying costs.

Banks are starting to have a tougher time obtaining funds in the financial system as the Federal Reserve shrinks its balance sheet and hikes interest rates, leaving analysts searching for any signs that the strains are approaching the magnitude of past credit crunches.

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The Federal Reserve's campaign to tighten financial conditions has resulted in notably increased borrowing by U.S. banks at the central bank's discount window, normally a last-resort funding source.

Wells Fargo cut hundreds more mortgage employees Thursday, the latest in a series of reductions across the industry after higher interest rates brought the pandemic-era home-lending boom to halt.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce posted earnings that missed analysts' estimates as the lender failed to benefit from rising interest rates.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is making the most of rising interest rates, with widening lending margins lifting results.

Canada's banks are expected to post their second straight quarter of declining earnings as the darkening economic outlook slows loan growth and prompts them to stockpile capital, outweighing the benefit of wider lending margins.

Federal Reserve officials at their meeting earlier this month concluded it would soon be appropriate to slow the pace of rate increases, signaling the central bank was leaning toward downshifting to a 50-basis-point hike in December.

Our current high inflation rates and the recession that is probably facing the economy in 2023 have the fingerprints of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell all over them.

A former Deutsche Bank trader cleared of charges that he rigged the Libor benchmark rate has sued the bank for malicious prosecution, saying the company made false and misleading statements to get him prosecuted in the U.S.

While rising rates buoy revenue for the country's largest banks, in the short term they also force them to write down the value of assets they hold on their balance sheet, exacerbating a capital squeeze that's prompted most of them to halt buybacks.

North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry — who's in line to lead the House Financial Services Committee after the GOP won control of the chamber in the midterm elections — has called for the Fed to stay focused on controlling inflation. Democrats, who retained the Senate, have begun to voice concerns that higher borrowing costs will hurt jobs and potentially cause a recession.

Inconsistent rules for calculating bank capital threaten to cut off small banks from a key source of liquidity.

The Federal Reserve appeared closer to moderating aggressive interest rate increases after welcome news on inflation, with three officials backing a downshift even as they stressed that policy needs to stay tight.

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"We're at the very beginning of that mission" to tighten policy enough to slow down the economy and push down inflation, says Bill Dudley, a former New York Fed president.

The Federal Reserve's latest rate hike will cost Americans with outstanding credit card debt more than $5 billion in additional interest over the next 12 months, according to an estimate from the personal-finance site WalletHub.

Investment is flowing out of stablecoins into assets like U.S. Treasuries in response to prevailing macroeconomic conditions, according to Circle Internet Financial Chief Executive Jeremy Allaire.

The interest paid on consumer deposits has barely risen despite the Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes, writes Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., in letters to seven of the largest U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.