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RBA shake-up promises board representation for workers, with focus on full employment and fighting inflation

Sweeping changes to Reserve Bank of Australia give equal weighting to employment and inflation, and mandate greater transparency

The Guardian - AU

Reserve Bank revolution: how Jim Chalmers will recraft the RBA for the 21st century

The review into the Reserve Bank of Australia has just been published by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, and it’s a blockbuster.

The Conversation

Reserve Bank set for biggest overhaul in decades after review calls for more external leaders

The Reserve Bank is set for its biggest overhaul in decades, with a review into the central bank finding it needs major changes to ensure it is "fit for the future".

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Labor to announce in-principle support for RBA review's recommendations, establish two new boards

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to release the highly anticipated review into the Reserve Bank of Australia on Thursday and to announce that the government has given in-principle support to all of its recommended changes.

ABC News

S&P Futures Climb as Investors Weigh Economic Outlook, U.S. Bank Earnings on Tap

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are trending up +0.34% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices ended the regular session higher as market participants digested the latest batch of corporate earnings while seeking more clarity on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy stance.

Barchart

S&P Futures Climb as Investors Await More Earnings, Fed Clues

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The mining sector made more than half of Australia's corporate profits, so why do economists want to ignore it?

Australia's mining sector has generated windfall profits over the past two years, the result of dramatically higher prices for fossil fuel energy, but has it driven inflation?

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Andrew Bailey plays down bank crisis, paving way for more interest rate rises

Speculation of further 0.25-point increase in rates after speech by Bank of England governor to IMF

The Guardian - UK

Central bank to continue gradual monetary tightening

The Bank of Thailand's (BoT) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said it would continue its approach of gradual and measured policy normalisation as it hiked the key interest rate last month, minutes of the meeting showed on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Megan Greene to join BoE’s monetary policy committee

Global chief economist at Kroll will join the MPC as an external member on a three-year term from 5 July

The Guardian - UK

Stocks Move Higher Before the Open as Market Sentiment Improves, U.S. Inflation Data on Tap

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.21%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.28% this morning as market participants continued to assess the path of Federal Reserve monetary policy following a solid U.S. jobs report while bracing for the start of the earnings season and inflation…

Barchart

Stocks Move Higher Before the Open as Focus Shifts to U.S. Inflation Data, FOMC Minutes

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Gold Off One-year Highs as Dollar Firms ahead of US Payrolls Data

Gold prices retreated from one-year highs on Thursday as the dollar regained some ground, while investors awaited the US non-farm payrolls report to gauge the Federal Reserve's monetary policy strategy. Spot gold fell 0.4% to $2,013.13 per ounce by 0701 GMT, after hitting its highest since March 2022 on Wednesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

RBI decides to keep repo rate unchanged at 6.5 pc

The Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep the key benchmark interest rate - repo rate - unchanged at 6.5 per cent with readiness to act should the situation so warrant, Governor Shaktikanta Das announced on Thursday, after a two-day monetary policy (MPC) meeting. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Evening Standard

Bank of England interest rate-setter warns inflation may get too low

Silvana Tenreyro has been one of the Monetary Policy Committee’s most consistently dovish members

The New Daily

‘Pause doesn’t mean peak’: The RBA has stopped hiking rates – but will the mortgage reprieve last?

Millions of Australian homeowners were spared another increase in their mortgage bills on Tuesday when the RBA paused interest rates.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt’s Central Bank Faces Multiple Crises, Limited Options

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will hold a periodic meeting on Thursday when options to contain successive shocks to the Egyptian economy remain limited before growing local and global crises. CBE will likely raise interest rates at today’s meeting to curb inflation, which…

Miami Herald

Stubborn inflation, tight labor market quite challenging, Miami Fed exec says

Inflation needs to be brought under better control before the Federal Reserve starts reversing its monetary policy of boosting interest rates, a Miami-based regional executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said Tuesday, during a regional economic summit at Key Biscayne.

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3 of the Strongest Stocks to Buy Right Now

Rekindled recession worries amid upheaval in the banking sector and the Fed’s further tightening of monetary policy could keep the stock market volatile in the near term. Given this backdrop, we think the strong growth prospects of UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Danaher Corp. (DHR), and ServiceNow (NOW) make these stocks solid…

Reuters

Brazil's monetary policy director leaves office amid government uncertainty over replacement

Brazil's central bank monetary policy director Bruno Serra has left his position at his request, according to the official gazette on Monday, backdated to March 23, while the new administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has yet to announce a replacement candidate.

Evening Standard

OPINION - We can’t let saving the banks distract from the vital war on inflation

The Bank of England is faced with the sort of choice that central bankers prefer not to confront. Inflation is far too perky, which warrants higher interest rates. The global financial system, however, is in an unexpected state of stress: the financial “central heating” is on the blink. Past financial…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Official: Foundation of China's Economic Recovery not Solid Enough

The foundation of China's economic recovery is not solid enough, a senior Communist Party official said on Saturday, warning of possible spillover effects from global economic problems. Some countries have to play a balancing act as they try to stabilize their economies, prices and financial markets, said Han Wenxiu, deputy…

Tribune News Service

Volcker slayed inflation. Bernanke saved the banks. Can Powell do both?

History remembers Paul Volcker as the slayer of inflation, and Ben Bernanke as the crisis firefighter. Jerome Powell is in danger of having to play both roles at once — or, what may be worse, to choose between them.

Birmingham Post

Bank of England lifts UK interest rates again but upgrades economic growth forecast

Monetary Policy Committee voted seven to two to increase rates

The Independent UK

Bank of England hikes interest rates for 11th time running after leap in inflation

The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to increase interest rates to 4.25% from 4%

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