EIB: rate market divergence can only stretch so far

The central banks responsible for setting rates for the world’s four core currencies have not been so far apart in their policies since the financial crisis of 2008. The US Federal Reserve is in a rate rising cycle — albeit a very slow one — the Bank of England is embarking on another round of quantitative easing, the European Central Bank has added corporate bonds to its purchasing programme and the Bank of Japan is attempting to control not just short-term interest rates but long-term ones too.