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. ...

  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 ...

  Bloomberg The pound strengthened and UK stocks rise on reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to resign. Investors said the news may spell some initial relief for UK assets, which have been battered by the country’s high inflation, weak economy and the political uncertainty. Sterling rises as much as 0.6% to $1.1994. The FTSE 250 Index, which ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received a phone call from Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, dealing with bilateral relations and ways to enhance them as part of the strategic partnership between the two countries. President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and the German Chancellor also tackled a number of ...

  Bloomberg Opec Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, an oil industry veteran who steered the group through the creation of the Opec+ alliance, has died in his native Nigeria. He was 63. Barkindo was in the final weeks of his six-year tenure as the top diplomat at Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), where he headed its Vienna-based secretariat. He had returned ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Bahrain Bourse (BHB) announced the launch of the region’s first digital exchange hub – Tabadul, with an official bell ringing ceremony live streamed from BHB and the ADX headquarters. Hisham Malak, Chairman of ADX, rang the market opening bell at ADX and Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the ...

  Dubai / WAM Increased adoption of digital-health technologies are expected to unlock an estimated $230 billion globally including $10 billion in the Middle East over the next 5 years, a new report entitled, ‘Digital Health: How Governments Can Accelerate the Value of Digital Health’, revealed. The report was produced by the World Government Summit (WGS) in collaboration with McKinsey ...