In doing so, it joined the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, the Swedish Riksbank and the Danish central bank with negative rates. And in a number of countries, there is an expectation that yet further monetary easing will take place. It remains to be seen what all this means for us.
Thank you for your attention. 1 See, for example, C M Buch, S Eickmeier and E Prieto (2014), In search for yield?