Central Banks at Zero Failing to Turbocharge Effect of Cheap Oil

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Central bankers unable to cut interest rates are failing to turbocharge the effect of declining oil prices.

Economists at Oxford Economics Ltd., a U.K.-based research group, say policy makers may be damping hopes that last year’s near-halving of crude prices would spark worldwide demand.