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Venezuela running out of cash
March 4th, 2017
The Central Bank of Venezuela says the country is down to just $10.5 billion in foreign reserves. At the same time, Caracas has to meet debt obligations of $7.2 billion this year. The country had nearly $30 billion in ...
Dollar slips but poised for winning week on March Fed rate hike bets
March 3rd, 2017
The dollar slipped on Friday but remained on track for a solid weekly gain on growing expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its mid-March meeting, which led to a rise in U.S. Treasury yields. The ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate unchanged
February 28th, 2017
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for January declined by 0.2 percent, in line with the average of forecasters’ projections. There were seasonal declines this month in the clothing and footwear component (9.2 percent), in the housing component (0.5 ...
Russian economy to grow 2% this year – economic development minister
February 28th, 2017
Russia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is due to return to sustainable growth in 2017, according to Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin. “The recent data about freight turnover, electricity consumption and other things which we see at the beginning of ...
Bundesbank posts distributable profit of €0.4 billion in 2016
February 24th, 2017
The Bundesbank posted a profit of €1.0 billion for the 2016 financial year, compared with €3.2 billion in 2015. Owing to an allocation to the reserves, the remaining distributable profit amounted to €0.4 billion and was transferred in full ...
Asia stocks consolidate recent gains; China shines
February 21st, 2017
Asian stocks held ground on Tuesday though Chinese equities surged to a fresh 2-1/2 month high as domestic funds piled into financial counters on expectations the world’s second biggest economy may have turned a corner. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
Asia stocks at 19-month high, dollar up
February 15th, 2017
Asian stocks scaled 19-month peaks on Wednesday, helped by a record-setting night on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen flagged a possible interest rate rise next month, keeping the dollar near three-week highs. Spreadbetters saw the boon ...
Salaries in the Middle East to see slight increase in 2017
February 9th, 2017
The strongest salary growth of 3 per cent is expected in the procurement and supply chain sector Salaries in the Middle East are anticipated to increase by an average of 2 per cent this year, according to a new ...
Strengthening ruble boosts Russian imports
February 9th, 2017
Russian imports surged 36.4 percent year on year in January, as the ruble strengthened significantly, becoming the world’s best-performing currency last year. In the first month of the year, Russia imported $11.1 billion worth of products from non-CIS countries, ...
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand left the Official Cash Rate unchanged
February 9th, 2017
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has issued a Monetary Policy Statement for February 2017 to inform for its decision to keep the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 1.75 percent. According the Policy Statement: The recovery in commodity ...
