Bloomberg Serbia lifted its benchmark interest rate for a fourth month, the highest since July 2019, following in the footsteps of peers in eastern Europe to confront persistent price pressure. The central bank in Belgrade increased the one-week repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%, a move that none of the 18 economists in a Bloomberg survey forecast. …

  Bloomberg Peru’s central bank is expected to raise its key interest rate by half a percentage point on Thursday as the fastest inflation in 25 years fuels social tension in the Andean country. Policy makers will lift the benchmark rate to 6%, the highest since 2009, according to all economists surveyed by Bloomberg. It will be the 12th straight …

  Bloomberg US stock-index futures rise as softer oil prices and a weaker dollar signalled fears about inflation and the pace of monetary tightening are fading. Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes advanced at least 0.2% each after the underlying gauges capped the first three-day rally since May. Asian semiconductor shares rallied after Samsung Electronics Co reported …