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Property analysts continue to forecast a 5.0% rise in Australian home prices in 2024, a Reuters poll showed, brushing off central bank comments since the last poll three months ago that leave open...

Property analysts continue to forecast a 5.0% rise in Australian home prices in 2024, a Reuters poll showed, brushing off central bank comments since the last poll three months ago that leave open the possibility of an interest rate hike before year-end. After a 25% surge during the pandemic, average house prices tumbled 9% from their peak but clawed back almost all of that last year even though the Reserve Bank of Australia hiked the cash rate to a 12-year high of 4.35%. Since the 2008 financ...

The downturn in euro zone business activity eased in February as the dominant services sector broke a six-month streak of contraction, offsetting a deterioration in manufacturing, a survey showed. ...

The Bank of Korea will keep its key policy rate on hold for a ninth consecutive meeting on Feb. 22, according to all economists polled by Reuters, who stuck to their long-held view the first rate...

The Bank of Korea will keep its key policy rate on hold for a ninth consecutive meeting on Feb. 22, according to all economists polled by Reuters, who stuck to their long-held view the first rate cut would come in the third quarter. Despite inflation declining to a six-month low in January, most Bank of Korea board members see the need for monetary policy to stay restrictive for some time to bring it down to the bank's 2.0% target. Although BOK Governor Rhee Chang-yong said any premature ...

The Bank of England will start cutting interest rates in the third quarter, a Reuters poll of economists showed, with a slim majority expecting the first reduction in August. That is...

Bank Indonesia will keep its key policy rate unchanged at a Feb. 20-21 meeting over subdued inflation and an improving outlook for the currency, according to a Reuters poll of economists who...

South Africas budget deficit will narrow at a slower pace in coming years than October estimates predicted, put off course by poor mining tax receipts, according to a Reuters poll which also... -February 15, 2024 at 12:07 am EST - MarketScreener

The Indian rupee will remain in a tight range and appreciate only slightly against the U.S. dollar over the coming year as the Reserve Bank of India continues to intervene in currency markets...

The Reserve Bank of India will hold its key interest rate steady at 6.50% on Feb. 8, according to economists polled by Reuters who expected the central bank to keep rates unchanged until at least... -February 01, 2024 at 09:08 pm EST - MarketScreener