About Rate Brief
Rate Brief is a desk for currencies and the institutions that move them. It is organised by currency — Dollar, Euro, Sterling, Yen, Emerging — plus a Policy desk for what crosses them, because that is how the news arrives: a rate decision, a statement, a set of minutes, a statistical release.
How news is handled here
The feeds are the institutions themselves. The Federal Reserve, the ECB, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Riksbank, the Reserve Bank of India, the ONS, HM Treasury. The statement is the event; a wire report of it is a pointer to the document, and we follow the pointer before writing anything.
Every item links its primary source, and says so. You get the address of the decision, the minutes or the release, and you can check us in one click.
Every item carries a line of judgement. What changed, what it leaves unchanged, and — often the more useful half — what the institution deliberately did not say.
A speech is not a decision. Central bankers speak constantly; one official's view is not the committee's. Where a piece rests on a speech or a blog post by a board member, it says so in the text.
Not financial advice
Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing here is an offer, a solicitation or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any currency or instrument. Rate Brief publishes news analysis: what an institution decided or published, read from the primary document.
We publish no forecasts. Not for a policy rate, not for a currency pair, not for an index — no targets, no levels, no "expect", no direction. Where a market move is part of the story it is reported as reported, attributed to whoever measured it, and never explained by us.
Currency and rate markets are leveraged, volatile and unforgiving, and retail traders lose money in them routinely. We do not know your circumstances and we are not assessing them. Before acting on anything you read here, do your own research — and where the decision matters, take advice from someone qualified and regulated to give it in your jurisdiction.
No paid coverage, no affiliate links, no broker referrals, no sponsored posts. Nothing on this site is for sale and no link here earns anything if you click it. If that ever changes it will say so on this page, in this paragraph.
Bylines
Most items are desk copy and are published under the name of the publication. Pieces written by a named contributor carry that person's byline and link to their page. Every item links the primary source it was written from, in the article itself.
Contact
Write to [email protected] — corrections, rights questions, or a source telling us we got something wrong. Corrections are made on the article itself, with a note saying what changed.