India's central bank announced on Monday a host of measures to inject liquidity into the banking system, including bond purchases and dollar/rupee swaps, which analysts and traders said could be a precursor to a rate cut next month.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Central bank independence is being questioned in parts of the world and greater political influence over policy could undermined their ability to keep inflation down, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.

Pakistan's central bank cut its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 12% on Monday, the governor told reporters, for a sixth straight reduction since June as the country attempts to revive business and economic sentiment amid easing inflation.

The Reserve Bank of India's unexpected purchase of government bonds pushed down bond yields on Monday and raised bets for a cut in interest rates in February, investors said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian companies surveyed by the central bank expect inflation in 2025 of 10.7%, more than double the official forecast, and named labour shortages as one of the main factors stopping them expanding production, the central bank said on Friday.

The new EO will also establish a presidential working group to create a federal regulatory framework governing digital assets (including stablecoins), and evaluate the creation of a strategic national digital assets stockpile.

Luis Fuentes, age 39, of Lancaster, was identified by the Lancaster County Coroner’s office as the man who died in the hospital after being shot by police. He wielded a machete during the Friday robbery,

China’s central bank kept a key policy rate steady while injecting liquidity into the financial market, signaling that it may hold benchmark rates unchanged for longer.

Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45%. The decision on Thursday marked the second rate cut in a row and came as inflation slowed.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced its decision to maintain the policy rate

The central bank reduced its one-week repo rate to 45% from 47.5% as a cycle of higher borrowing costs bore fruit in cooler price rises.