1 pc interest cap on money market instruments is not fair
Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank, introduced Monetary Policy for Fiscal Year 2016-17 last week. Rupak D Sharma of The Himalayan Times caught up with Bhuvan Kumar Dahal, CEO of Sanima Bank and member...
View ArticleIndia Inc remains bullish about business outlook
Mumbai: Indian corporates remained upbeat about the business environment during the first quarter of FY17 as they are expecting an improvement in demand conditions due to the implementation of seventh...
View ArticlePress Release No 16 - 2016 Monetary Policy Stance Maintained (Reserve Bank of...
(Source: Reserve Bank of Fiji) 0d877fb3-2e00-457d-8a0c-41df177dc0b9.pdf RESERVE BANK OF FIJI PRESS RELEASE Press Release No. : 16/2016 Telephone : (679) 331 3611 Facsimile : (679) 330 2094 Date : 30...
View ArticleRisk-on sentiment did trigger correction in gold, but yellow metal in a sweet...
By Chirag Mehta Global central bankers' pledge to limit the fallout of the UK's vote to leave the European Union has ignited 'risk-on' sentiment. The inherent promise to maintain global liquidity has...
View ArticleRaghuram Rajan clarifies his stand on criticisms around RBI's policy
--> Tue, 26 Jul 2016-11:47pm , Mumbai , PTI Raghuram Rajan was addressing the 10th Statistics Day Conference at the RBI headquarters in Mumbai. Taking on his detractors, Governor Raghuram Rajan said...
View ArticleBank of England slashes interest rates as first signs of Brexit pain emerge
The Bank of England (BoE) has cut interest rates for the first time since 2009 and said it would buy £60 billion (Dh290.77bn) of government debt to ease the blow from Britain's June 23 vote to leave...
View ArticleShow me how inflation is low: Raghuram Rajan on ‘dialogues’ by critics
Taking his critics head-on, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has challenged them to show how inflation is “very low” before accusing him of “being behind the curve” in his focus on containing price rise...
View ArticleMonetary Policy Review July 2016 (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
(Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka) Communications Department 30, Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 01, Sri Lanka. Tel : 2477424, 2477423, 2477311 Fax: 2346257, 2477739 E-mail: dcommunications@cbsl.lk,...
View ArticleJapan central bank adds stimulus, cites global uncertainties
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's central bank opted Friday for a modest expansion of its lavish monetary stimulus to help perk up sluggish growth and combat deflation. The measures fell short of expectations among...
View ArticleRBA Keeps Options Open as Growth, Jobs Market Likely to Ease
Australia’s central bank is keeping its policy options open as it predicted the economy probably cooled last quarter, momentum in the jobs market has eased and inflation is set to remain weak....
View ArticleRBI cuts repo rates by 25 basis points
Encouraged by softening inflation, the RBI on Thursday decided to cut the benchmark interest rate by 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent with a view to boost growth. The decision to reduce repo rate comes a...
View ArticleBank of England cuts interest rate
LONDON -- The Bank of England said Thursday that it would cut its main interest rate to its lowest point ever and expand other measures to bolster Britain's economy over concern that the country's...
View ArticleEconomic Review-July 2016 (Reserve Bank of Fiji)
(Source: Reserve Bank of Fiji) Vol. 33 No. 07 Month Ended July 2016 Despite improved economic outcomes for some advanced and emerging market economies recently, global financial and economic conditions...
View ArticleTranscript of the Press Conference on the Release of the July 2016 World...
(Source: IMF - International Monetary Fund) Washington D.C. July 19, 2016 Participants: Maurice Obstfeld, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department Gian Maria Milesi‑Ferretti, Deputy...
View ArticleCentral Bank of Nigeria Communique No. 108 of the Monetary Policy Committee...
(Source: Central Bank of Nigeria) Central Bank of Nigeria Communique No 108 of the Monetary Policy Committee Meeting of Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th July 2016 The Monetary Policy Committee met on...
View ArticleAsian equities: Pokemon, G20 and augmented reality
Popularity is generally difficult to predict, let alone understand. In 2015, no one would have foreseen how popular chasing the pocket monsters of Pokemon across major cities would become. The crux of...
View ArticleIMF Executive Board Concludes the 2016 Article IV Consultation and the Fifth...
(Source: IMF - International Monetary Fund) July 28, 2016 On July 27, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation and the Fifth Post-Program...
View ArticleRetrofitting the Reserve Bank
John Maynard Keynes was surely right to remark that the world is ruled by ideas and little else. But he may have been optimistic in believing that “soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests,...
View ArticleAustralia's central bank cuts rates to new low
SYDNEY, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Australia's central bank has cut the official cash rate to a new record low 1.5 percent on Tuesday as inflation "remains quite low" despite the local economy continuing to...
View ArticleSpeech by NBS Vice-Governor Diana Dragutinović at the presentation of the...
(Source: National Bank of Serbia) NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA Speech at the presentation of the Annual Financial Stability Report for 2015 Diana Dragutinovic PhD, Vice Governor Belgrade, 27 July 2016...
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