begin publishing a Monetary Policy Report( MPR) on a biannual basis to provide a clearer assessment of

Join our Whatsapp channelKARACHI: While multinationals praised the State Bank’s decision to

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan( BoJ) is expected to keep its main monetary policy settings steady today

The possibility of creating a democratic monetary order as part of the European experience was

cent at its final Monetary Policy Committee( MPC) meeting of the year, making the policy rate unchanged

Inflationary pressureINFLATION data for April 2022, which will be the key focus this week, is expected to remain at around 2%. Malaysia’s consumer price index( CPI) in March 2022 rose 2.2% to 125.6 against 122.9 in March 2021, surpassing the average inflation for the January 2011 to March 2022 period which stood at 1.9%. Bloomberg estimates a 2.2% growth year-on-year( y-o-y) unchanged from March.... Analysts said that besides energy, food and material prices, domestic price pressures are on an

rose over 2 percent, as sentiment was hurt by the BOE's decision to increase interest rates to cope

ultra-loose monetary policy stance in a keenly awaited rate decision, while the dollar stood near a

" Thus government is committed to reducing the budget deficit in FY23," he added.... The IMF has made the resumption of the programme conditional on the reversal of fuel and energy subsidies introduced by the previous PTI government, which have been criticised and termed unsustainable by many, including the PML-N and others who are part of the incumbent coalition goverment.... Ismail said the IMF team emphasised the importance of" rolling back" fuel and power subsidies, which were given by the

The apex representative body of Pakistan’s private sector feared that any further monetary