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By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank will raise the cash rate by another half-point on Tuesday to curb soaring inflation but will moderate the pace of hikes …

(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday it expects Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to reiterate the case for slowing the pace of tightening, when he speaks at the annual …

SEOUL – A South Korean central-bank board member affirmed on Wednesday that interest rates should rise further but added that increases should be gradual, since downside risks to both exports …

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s central bank is expected to deliver this week a third straight half-point rate hike in its most aggressive policy tightening in over two …

By Pratima Desai LONDON – Recession worries and consumer belt tightening have hit demand for electronic goods, which is feeding through to weaker consumption of soldering metal tin, but output …

SHANGHAI – About 90% of traders and analysts in a Reuters survey expected China to keep benchmark interest rates unchanged at its monthly fixing on Monday, as global central bank …

TORONTO – The Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday as oil prices fell and interest rate hikes by central banks around the world added to investor worries …

PRAGUE -The Czech National Bank might be forced to raise interest rates by more than its current course suggests if a dovish majority is created on its board, board member …

NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve could pause its monetary policy tightening in September if there is an economic deterioration and inflation subsides, BofA strategists said on Thursday, a day …

ZURICH – Global monetary policy is moving into a new phase of higher interest rates to combat resurgent inflation, Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan told Bilanz magazine in an …

By Kitiphong Thaichareon and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK – Thailand has no need to raise interest rates following the Federal Reserve’s hikes in U.S. rates as domestic factors and the economic …

By Md Manzer Hussain BENGALURU – The Philippine central bank will kick off its tightening cycle on Thursday, much earlier than previously thought, joining peers around the world in a …

By Indranil Sarkar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on most Asian currencies firmed, a Reuters poll found on Thursday, as several regional central banks trail the U.S. Federal Reserve in tightening …

By Cynthia Kim and Jihoon Lee SEOUL -South Korea’s central bank governor nominee Rhee Chang-yong said on Tuesday the bank will continue to tighten monetary policy, but suggested the pace …

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve aims to tighten monetary policy in a methodical way that keeps the economic expansion intact, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said on Wednesday. …

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 …

BRASILIA – Brazil’s central bank will wrap up its monetary tightening with rates at 13% this year, according to a weekly survey of private economists on Monday, which showed the …

A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. There’s arguably little central banks can do to tame surging energy and commodity prices other than try to limit …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Reserve is acting “appropriately” to tighten monetary policy and signal a higher future rate path, but the policy shift does bring risks for emerging market …

By Ann Saphir – Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday signaled much faster interest rates hikes this year than they had expected just a few months ago, getting them to about …

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK – A dramatic flattening in key parts of the U.S. Treasury yield curve is reflecting worries that the Federal Reserve has been too slow to …

FRANKFURT – Euro zone inflation will return to trend without significant policy tightening by the European Central Bank as pandemic-related bottlenecks in goods as well as labour are resolved, the …

By Fergal Smith TORONTO – As the Bank of Canada prepares to shrink its bloated balance sheet, investors say the move could enable expected interest rate hikes to have more …

LONDON – The world’s top central banks are about to embark on “the largest quantitative tightening in history”, analysts at Morgan Stanley said on Friday, estimating that $2.2 trillion worth …