Bloomberg Policy makers should move beyond short-term budget and inflation targets that leave their economies exposed to longer-term debt bubbles like the ones hindering growth since the 2008 financial crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said. Central banks with inflation targets like Canada’s are finding that the benefits gained from short-term stability can create dangers in the background ...

  BLOOMBERG Ghana is considering raising money through private bank loans, abandoning plans to sell as much as $1 billion of Eurobonds on concern its inability to raise targeted budget revenue may spark an investor selloff. With-lower-than-expected oil prices, the government can’t raise all the revenue needed to meet the budget gap, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement ...

  Bloomberg The level of inflation Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina just deemed ‘ unacceptable’ is looking better by the day. So much so that its failure to accelerate in May could force the central bank’s hand to ease policy for the first time in almost a year when it reviews interest rates this week. Price growth was unchanged ...