Bloomberg The National Bank of Kazakhstan kept interest rates on hold at a second consecutive meeting, but warned that inflation may pick up in the first quarter of next year. The base rate stayed unchanged at 9.25%, the National Bank of Kazakhstan said in a statement. The decision was forecast by six economists polled by Bloomberg. Inflation may accelerate to …

Bloomberg Mexico’s inflation slowed to slightly below the central bank’s target for the first time since 2016, bolstering economists’ expectations that policy makers will keep cutting interest rates this month. Consumer prices rose 2.97% in November from a year earlier, less than the 3% forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey, Mexico’s statistics agency reported on Monday. Prices increased 0.81% …

Bloomberg Truist Financial Corp is officially a thing. The $28 billion deal combining BB&T Corp and SunTrust Banks Inc — the largest US bank merger in more than a decade — was completed after trading closed last week. That poised the rebranded Charlotte, North Carolina-based firm to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TFC. For …