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HDFC hiked interest rates on floating rate home loans by 25 basis points in a move that will make loans costlier for both existing and new borrowers. In addition, a clutch of banks, including Bank of India, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian Overseas Bank and Dena Bank all hiked lending rates. On Monday, Punjab National [...]

Kenya’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for the second straight meeting, following six cuts since last year, after commercial lenders increased loans to consumers and businesses. The Monetary Policy Committee left the key lending rate at a record low of 6 percent, the Nairobi-based Central Bank of Kenya said in an e-mailed [...]

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Tuesday decided by unanimous vote to keep its benchmark lending rate unchanged at between 0.0 and 0.1 percent as the central bank continues to tackle the nation’s lingering deflation. The central bank also raised its economic growth forecast for fiscal 2010 to 3.3 percent, following a two-day policy board [...]

The People’s Bank of China said it would raise the one-year benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 5.81 percent, and the benchmark deposit rate by the same amount to 2.75 percent. The Chinese economy has been awash in liquidity due to government stimulus money and generous lending by state banks. Chinese officials are [...]

Turkey’s largest banks are lining up to sell their securities denominated in pounds before after regulators removed the ban to protect the investor demand for government debt. Turkiye Is Bankasi AS and Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, the two largest listed lender in Turkey, the plan to give the local bond market as the central bank reduces [...]

Russia’s central bank said it may increase interest rates in the first quarter, signaling a shift in its focus to inflation as the International Monetary Fund warned prices may remain “elevated on unchanged policies.” “Inflation is beginning to worry us,” Chairman Sergey Ignatiev told reporters yesterday in Moscow. The central bank will “primarily” use its [...]

Very strength of the weak dollar continues to be the main partner of the euro. But in an indirect appreciation we have seen a standard strength of a currency that seems to be devoid of all derivatives of appreciation. – Dollar hits fresh two-month high against the euro as risk trends primed for relaxation. – [...]