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India raises key interest rate for a second straight month

  Bloomberg India’s central bank raised the key interest rate for a second straight month and pledged to withdraw the pandemic-era accommodation as it steps up its fight to tame prices that have been running above its target band since beginning of year. The Reserve Bank of India’s rate setting panel unanimously raised the repurchase rate by 50 basis points ...

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RBA wrongfoots market with outsized increase, sending yields soaring

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank surprised investors by raising interest rates by twice as much as forecast and committing itself to “doing what is necessary” to rein in broadening inflationary pressures. Bond yields soared and stocks falls as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised its cash rate by 50 basis points — the biggest increase in 22 years — ...

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BOJ’s Kuroda sees progress on prices while sticking with easing

Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda pointed to some positive changes that suggest progress is being made toward his stable inflation target while making clear that policy tightening still isn’t an option for now. Several data sets are showing rising inflation expectations and a higher tolerance for price increases among households, the governor said in a speech. “This ...

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Deutsche Bank moving Russian IT staff to Berlin

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is moving hundreds of IT staff in Russia to Berlin as the lender braces for a potential closure of its technology center in the country, people familiar with the matter said. The bank has made offers to relocate to all of its about 1,500 employees at the Russian IT center in Moscow and St. Petersburg ...

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Ukraine raises key rate to 25%

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s central bank more than doubled its benchmark interest rate in a first such move in four months, reactivating policy tools to stem inflation and shield the currency battered by the Russian invasion. The central bank raised borrowing costs to 25% from 10% in its meeting on Thursday, the highest level since September 2015 — and the top ...

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Laurentian bank surges as commercial lending fuels turnaround

  Bloomberg Laurentian Bank of Canada advanced the most in more than a year after a surge in commercial lending helped fiscal second-quarter profit top analysts’ estimates and signaled that the firm’s turnaround is proceeding ahead of pace. The Montreal-based bank is up about 4% this year, the best performance in the eight-company S&P/TSX Commercial Banks Index. Laurentian’s shares top ...

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Buying Australian dollars is a phenomenal trade: UBS

  Bloomberg A slowing US economy and brisk growth in Australia will trigger a rally in the Australian dollar to levels last seen more than a year ago, UBS Group AG’s head of currencies in Asia said. After rebounding from a two-year low set last month, the Aussie could rise 11% from that level to as high as 76 US ...

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ECB to herald new policy era with path to fight inflation

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will begin a new era of monetary policy this week as officials complete their pivot to confront the threat of inflation running out of control. Armed with new forecasts and with prices rising at a record pace, President Christine Lagarde and her colleagues will end trillions of euros of asset purchases and cement ...

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Goldman returns to ESG debt market with $700mn deal

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised $700 million in the US investment-grade market to help fund environmental and social initiatives, its first benchmark sustainable-bond sale in over a year. The New York-based lender sold a sustainability bond maturing in five years, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The self-led deal yields 1.35 percentage points above Treasuries, ...

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Philippine central bank may cut reserve ratio: Medalla

  Bloomberg Incoming Philippine central bank governor Felipe Medalla said that the lenders’ reserve requirement ratio may be lowered this year to counter the impact of stimulus withdrawal. The plan is to cut the ratio 2 percentage points to 10% about a month or two before a rule that allowed lending to small businesses be counted as compliance to the ...

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