SHANGHAI – Benchmark lending rates for China’s commercial banks are likely to be lowered at a monthly fixing on Wednesday, a Reuters survey showed, as Beijing cautiously eases monetary conditions…
TOKYO – Japan’s core consumer inflation likely accelerated in March from a year earlier but was still well short of the Bank of Japan’s price goal, a Reuters poll showed,…
By Kevin Yao BEIJING – China’s economic growth is likely to slow to 5.0% in 2022 amid renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a weakening global recovery, a Reuters poll showed, raising…
SHANGHAI/BEIJING – China’s central bank is set to step up monetary easing efforts, but a vast majority of market participants in a Reuters poll conducted on Thursday believe the central…
By Shaloo Shrivastava BENGALURU – The Bank of Korea is likely to stand pat at its meeting this week as its committee awaits the appointment of a new governor, but…
NEW YORK – Speculators’ net long positioning on the U.S. dollar fell in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on…
By Devayani Sathyan and Vivek Mishra BENGALURU – New Zealand’s central bank will opt for a modest 25 basis point interest rate rise on April 13, but is set to…
By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES – Brazil’s real will keep trading close to its pre-pandemic levels in coming weeks, still riding a wave of positive sentiment that is strikingly at…
By Fergal Smith TORONTO – REUTERS POLL-CANADIAN DOLLAR TO STRENGTHEN SLIGHTLY TO 1.25/USD IN THREE MONTHS, MATCHING MARCH’S FORECAST REUTERS POLL-CANADIAN DOLLAR SEEN UP 2% AT 1.23/USD IN ONE YEAR…
By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on most Asian currencies eased as regional central banks sought to normalise policy due to surging inflation, while investors turned bullish on Singapore…
By Hari Kishan and Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU – The U.S. dollar will remain dominant for now so long as the Federal Reserve stays a hawkish course on interest rate hikes…
By Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU – The Bank of Canada will raise its overnight interest rate by 50 basis points at its next policy meeting on April 13, according to a…
By Prerana Bhat and Tushar Goenka BENGALURU – The Reserve Bank of India will delay its first interest rate rise by at least four months to August at the earliest,…
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) – A rally in oil is set to continue with prices staying well above $100 this year as a parched market struggles to wean itself off…
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO – Japan’s economy will grow at a slower pace than previously thought next quarter in part due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its inflationary effect…
By Rittik Biswas and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) – Coronavirus infections in Asia passed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the region records a resurgence in cases,…
BEIJING – China’s factory activity likely shrank in March, a Reuters poll showed, as the country imposed more mass testing and activity controls amid its worst resurgence of COVID-19 cases…
PRAGUE – The Czech National Bank is set to raise its main rate by 50 basis points to 5.00% on March 31, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, which would…
By Md Manzer Hussain BENGALURU – Thailand’s central bank will not raise interest rates from a record low for more than a year in a bid to support an economy…
By Harshita Swaminathan – Investors stayed bearish on most emerging Asian currencies and turned short on Thailand’s baht for the first time in three months, as uncertainty from Russia’s invasion…
(Corrects currency in 5th graf, no other changes.) ZURICH – The Swiss National Bank will likely hold fast to the world’s lowest interest rate when it gives its latest monetary…
By Shaloo Shrivastava and Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU – The Philippines central bank will leave policy on hold at Thursday’s meeting to support a nascent recovery, despite a recent U.S. Federal…
By Joel Schectman and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON – A new law bans the United States’ former spies from hiring themselves out to foreign governments right after they stop working for…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO – Japanese manufacturers’ business confidence improved for the first time in three months in March, as automakers became less pessimistic, though firms feared a fresh surge…
– The Russian central bank is expected to hold its key interest rate unchanged at 20% on Friday after a sharp emergency rate hike in late February designed to support…