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Poland central bank holds rates again as economy growing at 3% defies deflation

  Bloomberg Poland’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at a record low for a 17th month as economic growth stabilized around 3 percent and deflation stretched into a third year. The 10-member Monetary Policy Council on Wednesday left the seven-day reference rate at 1.5 percent, matching the predictions of all 30 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Governor Adam …

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Key executive at Bahrain’s Bank ABC to depart in 2017

  Reuters The chief banking officer of Bank ABC, Ray Ferguson, will step down from his position at the Bahraini lender in early 2017, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Ferguson, hired from Standard Chartered in 2014, had been tasked with helping to formulate and implement a refreshed strategy at the bank which included expanding abroad …

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ECB faces bond-buying shuffle with QE extension on the cards

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank might need to change the rules of the game if it wants to keep playing in the bond market. President Mario Draghi’s 1.7 trillion-euro ($1.9 trillion) asset-purchase program is scheduled to end in just six months, but euro-area inflation is still weak and the full shock of the UK’s Brexit vote could be yet …

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