Bloomberg Norway’s central bank kept rates unchanged at a record low and said it was “sticking to plans” even as inflation and the krone have come in weaker than forecast. The benchmark deposit rate was held at 0.50 percent, Norges Bank said in Oslo on Thursday. None of the 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had expected any change. Since …

  Bloomberg The end of the interest-rate increase cycle in South Africa doesn’t mean that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will start reducing borrowing costs, Governor Lesetja Kganyago said. “We could be coming to the end of our hiking cycle,” Kganyago said in an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua on Thursday. “That you are coming to the end …

  ABU DHABI / WAM Foreign investors secured AED6.4 billion in gains during April, 2017, augmenting the total market value of foreign stocks at Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Dubai Financial Market (DFM) to AED97.7 billion ($26.6 billion) by end of last month, a 7% increase from AED91.3 billion ($24.8 billion) in March. The growth is attributable to an …