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Central bank

The institution that manages a country's money supply and interest rates.

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Examples are the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. Their rate decisions affect borrowing costs, currencies and asset prices worldwide.

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