Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is likely to consider revising its inflation and growth forecasts later this month as a weaker yen and cost-push inflation force more companies to pass on higher costs to consumers, according to people familiar with the matter. The central bank will probably raise its quarterly price projection to its target level of 2% or above ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) is unlikely to offer a digital form of the pound that works like banknotes, opting instead for an instrument managed through some sort of account. Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe, who is overseeing the BOE’s work on central bank digital currencies, said policy makers are thinking about how to make the pound work better ...

  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. ...