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Bank of Canada continues to hold rate at 5% as underlying inflation still shows...

Governor Macklem said the "Governing Council’s discussion of monetary policy is shifting from whether our policy rate is restrictive enough to restore price stability, to how long it needs to stay at the current level"

Eurozone inflation drops to 6.1% in May, lower than expected

Annual consumer prices in the Eurozone rose by 6.1% YoY in May, down from 7% in April.

G20 finance officials to discuss debt, funding to low-income countries in India

G20's economic officials will gather in India next week to discuss ways to boost lending to developing countries from multilateral institutions and to reform the international debt system, Reuters cited unnamed Indian officials.

UK Economic Inactivity and Long-term Sickness

Post-covid trend of the economic inactivity in the UK

Canada inflation slows further to 2.8%; rent continues to rise

Canada's CPI rose 2.78% in February, a further slowdown from the 2.86% increase in the January

ECB on impact of Coronavirus (March 2)

Luis de Guindos, vice president of the European Central Bank, depicted the coronavirus as an additional " layer of uncertainty to global and euro area growth prospects,"

Resilient US job market continues easing trend

Non-farm payroll booked an increase of 236,000 in March, a further deceleration from February's 326,000, which was revised upward from the preliminary figure of 311,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' establishment survey.

Americans have not been this optimistic about their financial situation — for the last...

69% of American is financially optimistic, reaching the highest level for the last 16 years.

Fed-preferred PCE price index accelerated in January

Core PCE inflation rose 4.7% in January YoY, beating expectation of 4.4% increase. The Fed-preferred price index rose 0.6% MoM compared to the market expectation of 0.5%.
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Sberbank’s European subsidiaries placed under payment moratorium amid sanctions

EU’s Single Resolution Board has enforced payment moratorium on three European subsidiaries of Russian bank Sberbank, which is under US-led sanction, and is accessing whether any resolution action would be need to to protect public interest.

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