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INDIA FACTORY ACTIVITY EXPANDS AT FASTEST PACE IN FIVE YEARS IN DECEMB
India's goods-producing economy advanced on its recovery path, with operating conditions improving at the strongest pace since December 2012, said Aashna Dodhia, an economist at IHS Markit... READ MORE›
ASIA SET TO RAISE RATES NEXT YEAR, BUT STILL LAG FED
Yet it will lag the Federal Reserve's rate hikes as Asian central banks balance an exports-led revival in growth with a slowdown in regional locomotive China... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA RAISES RATES FOR FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS, FLAGS JOB MARKET RISKS
Board member Cho Dong-chul dissented in the 6-1 vote to raising interest rates to 1.50 percent... READ MORE›
BOND TRADERS BRACE FOR INFLATION DATA THAT COULD RATTLE THE FED
After Federal Reserve officials for years tip-toed around the Treasuries market for fear of rattling traders with tightening monetary policy, they've stuck to their predicted course throughout 2017... READ MORE›
DOLLAR TREADS WATER AS INVESTORS AWAIT U.S. INFLATION DATA
Inflation remains around 0.5 percent, still below our target, Kuroda told reporters upon arrival for the Group of 20 finance leaders' gathering in Washington... READ MORE›
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INDIA ABOLISHES 500 AND 1,000 RUPEE NOTES TO FIGHT CORRUPTION
Five hundred rupee 7.5 and 1,000 rupee notes will cease to be legal tender from Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an unscheduled address to the nation... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS GIVE UP ON COUNTING PILES OF CASH AND START WEIGHING THEM
For a QuickTake explainer on Venezuela's economy, click here Until now, as the bolivar sank, the government declined to print bigger-denomination bills... READ MORE›
BUY GOLD NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION HSBC SAYS
Even the relatively more internationalist Democratic candidate has argued for the renegotiation of longstanding free-trade agreements... READ MORE›
LIBYA ON BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
Libya's daily oil production before the 2011 uprising stood at 1.6 million barrels... READ MORE›
WORLD FACES WAVE OF EPIC DEBT DEFAULTS, FEARS CENTRAL BANK VETERAN
But Mr White said it would be a good start for governments to stop depending on central banks to do their dirty work... READ MORE›
DAVID CAMERON WARNS OF LOOMING SECOND GLOBAL CRASH
A European Central Bank ECB survey showed that inflation would remain at worryingly low levels before picking up slightly next year... READ MORE›
BONDS PLUNGE BY $1 TRILLION THIS WEEK AS TRUMP SEEN GAME CHANGER
Yields on U.S. 30-year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter maturities to the outlook for inflation, jumped the most this week since January 2009... READ MORE›
A $7 TRILLION MOMENT OF TRUTH IN MARKETS IS JUST THREE DAYS AWAY
The exodus has driven up Libor rates as banks and other corporate entities compete to replace the lost funding... READ MORE›
LONDON HOUSE PRICES MOST OVERVALUED IN THE WORLD, SAYS UBS
London house prices most overvalued in the world, says UBS... READ MORE›
WHY NOBODY TRUSTS THE WORLD'S BEST CURRENCY
The regulator in January removed regulations limiting lenders from buying and selling foreign currency outside a 4 percent band on either side of the official exchange rate... READ MORE›
FED RATE-HIKE ODDS APPROACH 100 IN ANTICIPATION OF TRUMPENOMICS
Trump's spending plans are driving speculation the Fed will pick up its pace of rate increases as inflation expectations climb... READ MORE›
LAND WITH LONGEST STRETCH OF NEGATIVE RATES FINDS RICH ARE GETTING RICHER FASTER
Loose monetary policy can also spur higher inflation, which reduces the debt burden for poorer members of society and also promotes job creation... READ MORE›
BONDS RISE WITH GOLD, YEN AS WEAK CHINA DATA STOKE HAVEN DEMAND
Currencies Japan's currency rose 0.5 percent against the dollar, as the euro briefly fell below 1.10 for the first time since July... READ MORE›
GOLD CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE AS TRUMP ANGST RUNS INTO RATE CONCERNS
In Singapore, paring the week's advance to 1.7 percent, according to Bloomberg generic pricing... READ MORE›
US FED ENDS QE STIMULUS PROGRAMME
The targets for inflation and reduction in unemployment were on track, the Fed said in a statement... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S NEXT BIG CURRENCY OPPORTUNITY JUST GOT A LOT CLOSER
Inflation is gathering strength, and it's set to accelerate faster than the central bank predicts in its forecast, Seidler said... READ MORE›
SURGING WORLD GROWTH MAKES A MOCKERY OF BREXIT PANICA
Global economic growth is accelerating sharply after months in the doldrums, confounding predictions of a worldwide recession following Britain'... READ MORE›
BOJ OVERHAULS POLICY FOCUS, SETS TARGET FOR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELDS
Central banks have already been taking steps to directly influence long-term rates via bond purchases ... READ MORE›
EURO 'HOUSE OF CARDS' WILL COLLAPSE, MONETARY UNION ARCHITECT WARNS
One day, the house of cards will collapse, Issing said in an interview with the journal Central Banking... READ MORE›
HOW WILL INDIA DESTROY 20 BILLION BANKNOTES?
India's central bank will have to destroy, by one estimate, some 20 billion expired banknotes after it scrapped two high-value denominations... READ MORE›
FED MINUTES POINT TO RATE HIKE 'RELATIVELY SOON'
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, Cleveland's Loretta Mester and Eric Rosengren of Boston dissented at the meeting in favor of higher rates... READ MORE›
BONDS SLIDE WITH STOCKS AS INFLATION, POOR EARNINGS FUEL ANXIETY
Brent for December settlement dropped 1.4 percent to 52.41 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange... READ MORE›
BANK OF CANADA CUTS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ON SLOWER HOUSING MARKET, SOFTER EXPORTS
The central bank trimmed its outlook for growth this year to 1.1 per cent, from the 1.3 per cent it had forecast in July... READ MORE›
CHINA BUSTS UNDERGROUND BANKS INVOLVING MORE THAN $148 BILLION
The yuan has depreciated 7.8 percent against the U.S. dollar since the central bank devalued the currency in August last year... READ MORE›
BANK OF CANADA HOLDS INTEREST RATE STEADY BUT SEES 'SUBSTANTIAL REBOUND' FOR REST OF 2016
Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady but sees 'substantial rebound' for rest of 2016... READ MORE›
CENTRAL BANKS WORRY ABOUT ENGAGING WORLD MARKETS AFTER BREXIT
As global markets reel after an establishment-rattling vote by Britain to sever ties with Europe, investors are again expecting central banks to ride to the rescue... READ MORE›
CHINA VOWS TO CONTAIN CORPORATE DEBT LEVELS AS INFLATION HEATS UP
I don't think there's an inflation issue in China, it's an asset bubble, said Commerzbank senior emerging market economist Zhou Hao in Singapore... READ MORE›
STOCKS RISE WITH DEBT AS SHIFT IN FED SPECULATION WEAKENS DOLLAR
Banks in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rallied ahead of the European Central Bank's meeting on Thursday, with the regional benchmark adding 1.5 percent... READ MORE›
JANET YELLEN CONDUCTS A GIANT EXPERIMENT AS FED DECIDES WHETHER TO RAISE RATES
The strange new world of the federal reserve is not your daddy's central banking system... READ MORE›
CONSUMER PRICES IN U.S. FALL 0.3%, FIRST DECLINE IN A YEAR
Consumer Prices in U.S. Fall 0.3 percent, First Decline in a Year... READ MORE›