Political news

The Reserve Bank of India kept its key policy rate unchanged on Wednesday while warning of lower growth and ​higher inflation as the...

China's central bank pledged on ​Tuesday to maintain ‌appropriately loose monetary policy, while noting growing impacts ​from changes ​in...

The average rate on the popular U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ​surged to a three-month high ‌this week as war in the Middle East stoked...

The Swiss National Bank kept its policy rate on hold on Thursday in the face of ​uncertainty over the Iran war, and signalled its increased...

The Swiss National Bank made the following statement after its policy review on Thursday: The Swiss National Bank is leaving the SNB policy...

The Bank of England on Thursday ​looks set to delay an interest rate cut that seemed a sure bet before the war in the ‌Middle East, and...

Federal Reserve officials, convening in a wartime setting that began less than three weeks ago, are expected to hold interest rates steady on...

Morocco's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.25% on Tuesday, saying inflation would ​remain moderate this year...

Indonesia's central bank ‌kept its key interest rates unchanged on Tuesday and signalled little room for rate cuts ahead given the impact...

The Bank of Japan must focus on the risk of an inflation overshoot in guiding monetary policy, hawkish board member Hajime Takata said on Thursday,...

South Korea's central bank stood pat on interest rates on Thursday and signalled policy would stay unchanged for the next six months as a chip...

Thailand's central bank chief said on Tuesday that fiscal and monetary policy should be deployed in tandem to lift economic growth toward 2.7%...

Indonesia's central bank held rates unchanged for a fifth straight policy review on Thursday, as expected, with its focus remaining on the...

Japan is "very close" to durably achieving the central bank's 2% inflation target, hawkish board member Naoki Tamura said on Friday,...

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday, shrugging off a dip in inflation while continuing to warn about an...

The Bank of England left interest rates on hold at 3.75% in a surprisingly close 5-4 split vote, with Governor Andrew Bailey and external...

Australia's central bank was forced to reverse course and raise interest rates on Tuesday as it struggles to bring inflation under control in a...

The Bank of Canada on Wednesday held its policy rate ‌at 2.25%, as widely expected, and Governor Tiff Macklem said a high level of trade...

The Bank of Japan considered mounting inflationary pressures stemming from a weak yen and labour shortages, among other factors, as key influences...

The Bank of Canada is widely expected to keep its policy interest rate ​on hold at 2.25% on Wednesday but economists and money markets are divided...

The unusual rate check by the New York Federal Reserve that triggered a spike in the stubbornly weak yen has lowered the threshold for...

The European Commission said on Friday it would propose suspending for another six months an ​EU package of retaliatory trade measures against the...

The Bank of Japan retained its hawkish inflation forecasts on Friday after keeping policy steady, signalling its conviction that a moderate...

Indonesia's central bank held its key policy rates steady on Wednesday, as expected, saying the level was supportive of economic expansion...

London's FTSE 100 edged lower on Thursday, pressured by weakness in oil stocks, even as defence shares surged to a record high on rising...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday the central bank will continue to raise interest rates if economic and price developments move in...

Bank of Japan policymakers debated the need to continue raising interest rates to levels deemed neutral to the economy with some arguing doing so...

A liquefied natural gas tanker has loaded a cargo from Russia's Portovaya LNG plant that is under Western sanctions over Moscow's war in...

China is expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged for a seventh consecutive month in December, a Reuters survey showed, despite a...

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday and raised some of its growth and inflation projections, likely...

The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday after a narrow vote by policymakers, but it signalled that the already gradual pace of...

The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday after a narrow vote by policymakers but it signalled that the already gradual pace of lowering...

The U.S. Trade Representative on Wednesday announced the implementation of tariff-related elements in a trade agreement framework reached with...

Indonesia's central bank held its policy rates unchanged for a third straight meeting on Wednesday, maintaining its focus on supporting the...

Indonesia expects to complete tariff talks with the United States by the end of the year, its chief negotiator said on Friday, with a delegation...

Hong Kong's de-facto central bank lowered on Thursday its base interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.0%, in line with a cut by the...

South Korea plans to relax rules on the separation of banking and commerce in a bid to spur investment, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on...

The Bank of Canada held its key policy rate steady at 2.25% on Wednesday as widely expected, and Governor Tiff Macklem said the economy was proving...

U.S. trade with China needs to be balanced and probably needs to be smaller, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Thursday, adding that...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was proud of last week's budget, defending not only what he described as the...

South Africa's central bank cut its main lending rate by 25 basis points to 6.75% on Thursday at the first meeting since its inflation target...

China will strengthen oversight of used-car exports and strictly control the export of new cars under the guise of used vehicles, according to a...