Reuters Egypt’s central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged at a monetary policy committee meeting, it said in a statement, after it had raised them by a total of 400 basis points in the previous two meetings. The bank has raised key interest rates by a total of 700 basis points, or 7 percentage points, since it floated the …

Bloomberg European Central Bank policy makers are wondering how much stimulus quantitative easing offers once bond-buying stops. Their assessment will likely influence the ECB’s strategy for ending its asset-purchase programme. Keen to avoid any steps that inadvertently tighten financial conditions, policy makers can’t ignore that their open-ended QE design so far means investors are focused more on the monthly flow …

Bloomberg Thomas J. Lee, one of the most bearish stock strategists on Wall Street, is feeling a lot more optimistic about the prospects for bitcoin. The cryptocurrency could reach $6,000 by the middle of 2018, according to a note from Lee, the Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder and former chief US equity strategist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He said user …