Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Turkey halts four-month streak of rate cuts

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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank on Thursday bowed to market pressure and halted a four-month streak of interest rate cuts that saw inflation soar and the currency collapse. The bank left its policy rate at 14 per cent two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a fervent opponent of high interest rates, said future reductions could … Read more

Yemen replaces central bank governor, deputy amid currency collapse

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RIYADH: Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi reconstituted the country’s central bank board on Monday, replacing the governor and the deputy governor, amid an unprecedented collapse in the local currency, Arab News reported. Ahmed bin Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Maabqi was appointed as governor and Muhammad Omar Banaja as his deputy, a presidential decree published by the state news … Read more