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Ethiopian warring sides agree truce to allow aid into Tigray

  Bloomberg The warring sides in Ethiopia agreed to a conditional truce in the northern Tigray region, where a civil war that’s raged since November 2020 has displaced millions of people and brought hundreds of thousands of others to the brink of starvation. The dissident Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it will implement a “cessation of hostilities effective immediately” once ...

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Thai central bank backs top lenders after S&P cuts ratings

  Bloomberg Thailand’s banking system remains resilient with high levels of capital buffer to withstand future risks and uncertainties, the nation’s central bank said, a day after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the top lenders citing increased systemic risks. The capital adequacy ratio of Thai banking system stands at 20% and lenders have increased provisioning against bad loans by $12.8 billion ...

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Hungary increases EU’s highest key interest rate

  Bloomberg Hungary resumed raising the effective interest rate after the central bank said that the war in neighbouring Ukraine will lead to a sharply deteriorating inflation outlook. The 30 basis-point increase brought the one-week deposit rate to 6.15%, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. But it disappointed currency traders after policy makers spoke of the need of ...

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