Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

China will cut interest rates on targeted monetary policy tools and expand related quotas to spur lending in key areas and improve market expectations, underscoring policymakers' resolve to support a ...

JAKARTA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Bank Indonesia (BI) plans to issue short-term Islamic bonds as its new monetary instrument that it would use to manage liquidity in the financial system, BI governor said on ...

The core of the new regulations revolves around the reporting threshold for physical currency and monetary instruments. While the precise figure remains consistent at $10,000, what's changing is the ...

Using a short-term interest rate as the monetary policy instrument can be problematic near its zero bound constraint. An alternative strategy is to use a long-term interest rate as the policy ...