MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Inflation has not begun slowing in Russia to date, and returning to the 4% target will last throughout 2025 and part of 2026, Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira ...

MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia allows for the possibility of hiking the key rate at the regulator's board meeting in December, though the decision is not set in stone, Central ...

Central Bank data indicate that Russian banks continued to boost the corporate loan portfolio significantly by 2.3% in October versus by 2% in September. Ruble loans grew by 2.4 trillion rubles, or ...

At the end of October, the National Bank of Ukraine raised its forecast for this year's GDP growth from 3.7% to 4%, and from 4.1% to 4.3% for 2025. Simultaneous, the NBU worsened its inflation ...

In annual terms, inflation increased to 9.7% at the end of October 2024 from 8.6% at the end of September, 7.5% at the end of August, and 5.4% at the end of July. Inflation in Ukraine fell to 5.1% in ...

MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Vietnam wishes to become a BRICS partner, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have accepted similar invitations earlier, the newspaper Izvestia said on Wednesday, citing ...

Armenia's GDP in 2025 is now projected at 10.891 trillion dram, down from 11.05 trillion dram in the draft budget that the government approved in September. Forecast GDP growth has been lowered to 5.1 ...

MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Russian government's decision to allocate an additional 57.5 billion rubles to the agro-industrial complex to subsidize loans should fully cover the needs for ...

MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia maintains an unwavering position against calls to affect the exchange rate dynamics, and the regulator still sees no basis to fight inflation by ...

BAKU. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Azerbaijan boosted sales of foreign currency at auctions 2.1-fold year-on-year to nearly $5.378 billion in January-September 2024.

MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia will consider the entire set of factors at the meeting of the regulator's board of directors on the key rate in December, and it is too soon to ...

TBILISI. Dec 3 (Interfax) - Annual inflation in Georgia accelerated to 1.3% in November from 0.3% in October, national statistics agency Geostat said. Consumer prices increased by 0.7% compared to ...