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...“That will need to be countered by central banks,” Kohn adds....
...It’s under review by officials at the US Treasury, and the European Central Bank has also mounted pressure for the bank to pull out of Russia. Raiffeisen itself seemed surprised by the findings....
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...For instance, someone with bank accounts abroad who had received small amounts of interest might wrongly think they do not need to report this to HMRC, Register said....
...Markets expect the European Central Bank to start cutting interest rates this year, possibly in April, from their current record high of 4 per cent....
...Consumer price growth across advanced economies has dropped from more than 7 per cent in 2022 to 4.6 per cent in 2023, according to the IMF....
...The central bank, which meets on Wednesday, is not expected to begin cutting rates until this summer....
...They are instead now only fully pricing in such a move by the central bank’s November 6-7 meeting, immediately after the November 5 election, when Biden is set to face his Republican rival Donald Trump....
...From a report the investment bank sent out yesterday, with Alphaville’s emphasis below: — The wide adoption of hybrid work caused a structural decline in office demand....
...European Central Bank policymakers agreed to keep the option open of another interest rate rise, even if it was not part of their “baseline scenario”, when they met last month....
...Goldman Sachs expects it to cut its forecast for eurozone inflation this year from 2.7 per cent to 2.3 per cent and for next year from 2.1 per cent to 2 per cent....
...“There’s still one more inflation release to take into account before the ECB’s March meeting but the numbers for January make us more confident in our forecast that the first rate cut will be in April,”...
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...Argentina’s central bank has put the country’s first 10,000-peso notes into circulation....
...At present, the central bank plans to reduce rates three times this year. Markets expect three or four cuts this year, beginning in June or July....
...Following a 7-2 majority vote, Japan’s central bank announced on March 19 that it would guide the overnight interest rate to remain in a range of roughly zero to 0.1 per cent....
...Tiff Macklem, speaking before his central bank’s recent policy decision....
...It will divert most of the effluent from 34 combined sewage overflow pipes in the central section of the river to a treatment plant in south-east London....
...Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, said on Tuesday the number of jobless people in the eurozone fell to 10.97mn, down 99,000 from the previous month and 282,000 from a year earlier....
...Libor was a benchmark interest rate, since replaced, determined by daily submissions from several “panel banks”....
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