central bank

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Indonesia’s central bank held interest rates steady again as the fallout from the war in the Middle East casts a shadow over the economic outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Damjan Pfajfar, vice president in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said the central bank prefers the PCE because it provides a “broader measure of inflation.”

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The central bank primarily uses the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which tracks the prices American consumers pay for goods and services, to evaluate inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

However, an adverse or severe scenario could see this fall to 0.6% or 0.4%, respectively, according to the central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker