Tag: central bank
India Holds Key Interest Rates As Expected; Raises Growth Outlook
India’s central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged for the eighth straight session on Thursday and pledged to maintain the disinflationary sta [...]
Russia Central Bank Signals July Rate Hike
The Russian central bank left unchanged its key interest rate for the fourth successive policy meeting on Friday amid persistent inflationary pressure [...]
Japan Inflation Slows For Second Month
Japan’s core inflation weakened for the second consecutive month in April, but the slowdown is likely to be temporary given the expected increase in w [...]
UK Mortgage Approvals At 18-Month High
UK mortgage approvals increased to a one-and-a-half year high in March as the impact of higher interest rates waned, data published by the Bank of Eng [...]
Indonesia Central Bank Unexpectedly Hikes Rate
Indonesia’s central bank surprised markets on Wednesday with an unexpected quarter-point rate hike to strengthen the rupiah.The Board of Governors of [...]
Nigeria Directs Entities to Identify Those Dealing Crypto With Bybit, KuCoin, OKX and Binance
However, "it’s noteworthy that the recent circular did not mention any indigenous crypto exchanges, likely because many Nigerian crypto companies, suc [...]
Swiss Central Bank Lifts Minimum Reserve Requirement – Forex News by FX Leaders – FX Leaders
Swiss Central Bank Lifts Minimum Reserve Requirement - Forex News by FX Leaders FX Leaders
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Bank Of Korea Holds Key Rate Unchanged As Expected
The Bank of Korea decided to hold the benchmark rate unchanged at its current restrictive level for the tenth straight session on Friday, as policymak [...]
India Delays FX Hedging Rules in Bid to Soothe Trader Panic
(Bloomberg) -- India’s central bank pushed back the implementation of its rules on exchange-traded currency derivatives by about a month, after the me [...]
Hong Kong’s Central Bank Announces New Wholesale CBDC to Support Tokenization Market
Project Ensemble will "seek to explore innovative financial market infrastructure (FMI) that will facilitate seamless interbank settlement of tokenise [...]
Powell Says Rate Cuts Likely This Year But Still Needs ‘Greater Confidence’ Inflation Is Slowing
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will tell members of Congress on Wednesday that it will likely be appropriate for the central bank to begin loweri [...]
NZDUSD Stays Close to 0.62 as NZ Q4 Retail Sales Fall – FX Leaders
NZDUSD Stays Close to 0.62 as NZ Q4 Retail Sales Fall FX Leaders
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Raghuram Rajan calls upon EMs to build forex reserves
Emerging-market authorities must take action to protect their economies against spillovers from “populist and extreme" mac [...]
Ukraine’s forex reserves up 42% on ‘unprecedented’ Western aid in 2023
KYIV: Ukraine's foreign exchange reserves grew 42% over the past year due to "unprecedented" foreign financial aid, reaching 40.5 billion US dollars a [...]
FOREX-Euro finds footing on hawkish policy remarks, lower energy prices
*Euro holds $1.07, drives past 161 yen*Commodity currencies slip with drop in oil price*Shekel regains ground lost since Hamas attackBy Tom WestbrookS [...]