At its first meeting of the year on 20 January, the Monetary Policy Committee of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) decided...
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Malaysia: Bank Negara Malaysia decides to remain on hold for third time in a row in January -
Luxembourg: Unemployment rate inches up in December In December, the number of unemployed workers came in at 19,918, which was up 9.7% from November’s result of 18,159.... -
Canada: Bank of Canada keeps rates unchanged in January; maintains asset purchasing program On 20 January, the Bank of Canada (BoC) kept its target for the overnight rate at 0.25%, its effective lower... -
Canada: Housing prices growth loses further steam in December According to the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, house price growth decelerated to 0.6% on a month-on-month non-seasonally-adjusted basis... -
Canada: Inflation eases in December Consumer prices rose a seasonally-adjusted 0.14% in December over the previous month, slowing down from November’s 0.29% increase. December’s result... -
Brazil: COPOM on hold in January meeting At its first meeting of 2021 on 19–20 January, the Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) of Brazil’s Central Bank unanimously decided... -
United Kingdom: Inflation increases in December Consumer prices rose a seasonally-adjusted 0.26% in December over the previous month, swinging from the 0.15% drop recorded in November.... -
Turkey: Current account deficit widens in November Turkeys current account recorded a USD 4.1 billion deficit in November (November 2019: USD 0.0 billion; October 2019: USD -0.3... -
Russia: Consumer confidence plunges in Q4 The consumer confidence index, published by the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) on 19 December, slumped to minus 26 points in... -
Belarus: Industrial activity drops at sharpest rate since May in December Industrial output dropped 0.7% in year-on-year terms in December, which was a deterioration from November’s 4.3% increase. The outturn marked...