Reuters Most Middle Eastern stock markets fell on Monday in line with a weak global trend, with Saudi Arabia seeing profit-taking in cement shares, but Egypt rose on the back of several blue chips, The region had already dropped on Sunday in response to Wall Street’s plunge on February 2, so Gulf markets far outperformed other bourses in Asia, where ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England’s (BoE) first policy meeting of the year is also the first test of the market’s newly aggressive interest-rate forecasts that emerged in recent weeks. Investors have ramped up bets that the follow-up to November’s tightening — the first in a decade — will come as soon as May, and economists in the latest Bloomberg survey ...

Bloomberg Australia is emerging as an outlier in the developed-world story of faster economic growth and inflation, pushing the central bank to the sidelines as flat wages and a strengthening currency keep prices in check. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe and his board will keep interest rates unchanged at a record low for an 18th month at Tuesday’s ...