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TWO decades after the devastating Asian financial crisis and the dot-Com bubble burst, retail or individual investors have once again returned in a big way to Bursa Malaysia, to the point that they have become a stronger buying force than foreign investors and local institutional funds
JOHANNESBURG, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 7.5 percent due to inflation remaining within the target range, the central bank announced on Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR: RHB Banking Group has launched Malaysia's first sustainable use-of-proceeds (UOP) cross-currency repurchase (repo) transaction.
JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank, announced Thursday a decision to cut the repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent, effective from Friday.
SHANGHAI: China's central bank supplied 14-day cash to its banking system for the first time in months on Monday and at a lower interest rate, signalling its intent to further ease monetary conditions.
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank, said Thursday that it has decided to cut the repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 8 percent, effective from Friday.
AS the amount of cash parked at the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) overnight reverse repo facility (ON RRP) hurtles towards zero, the Fed’s visibility on the minimum level of bank reserves needed to ensure the financial system functions smoothly also diminishes.
NEW YORK: Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) of Dallas president Lorie Logan said the US central bank may need to slow down the pace at which it shrinks its portfolio of assets amid scarcer liquidity in financial markets.
The Chinese yuan hit a six-month low on Tuesday after the country's central bank lowered a short-term lending rate for the first time in 10 months, while investors awaited key U.S. inflation data and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.
BENGALURU: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will delay its first interest rate rise by at least four months to August at the earliest, according to a Reuters poll of economists who say the central bank must now start worrying about inflation.
KIGALI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda's central bank announced Tuesday that it has decided to hike the repo rate from 6.0 percent to 6.5 percent in a bid to rein in inflation.
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it will establish separate domestic and international standing repo facilities to backstop money markets during times of stress.
SHANGHAI: China's short-term borrowing costs leapt on Wednesday, as smaller financial institutions scrambled for funds to fulfill a quarterly regulatory health check, prompting some official liquidity support to ease the tension.
THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept interest rates steady at record lows on Friday and reiterated its commitment to keeping policy accommodative as a second wave of COVID-19 infections threatens to derail the country's economic recovery.
JOHANNESBURG, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank, the country's central bank, said Thursday that it decided to maintain its repurchase rate at the current level of 8.25 percent as the inflation has cooled for three consecutive months.
The Indonesian rupiah hit an over three-month low on Monday, as Asia's emerging markets were mixed amid investors assessing the potential economic fallout of the new Omicron variant and an increasingly hawkish commentary from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Indian government bond yields are expected to fall as weaker-than-expected growth may force the central bank to rethink its tightening stance on monetary policy.
JOHANNESBURG, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank, announced Thursday to increase the repurchase rate by 50 basis points to 8.25 percent, with effect from Friday.
BENGALURU: India's economy will grow well below its potential over the next two years, with inflation staying above the mid-point of the Reserve Bank of India's tolerance band despite recent interest rate rises, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank, on Thursday decided to raise the repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 7.25 percent, with effect from Jan. 27.
