While rates have fallen from peaks above 6% for a typical two-year mortgage this time last year, they remain above 5% - far higher than their level before 2022, when interest rates started to rise sha ...

"It's important for monetary policy to more freely move toward normalisation," if the wide U.S.-Japan interest rate gap is causing a weak yen and hurting consumption, Mana Nakazora, a BNP Paribas (OTC ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is likely to debate whether to raise interest rates when it meets next week and unveil a plan to roughly halve bond purchases in coming years, sources said, signali ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday in a surprise decision aimed at spurring economic recovery following the country's worst financial crisis ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India could look at cutting gross borrowing later in the financial year if inflows into national small saving schemes (NSSF) are high, Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth told Reut ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided not to ask a U.S. appeals court to review a June ruling that said the agency did not have the power to oversee invest ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's finance minister unveiled $576 billion in spending plans in the current fiscal year on Tuesday, marginally higher than interim budget estimates, aiming to boost manufactu ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya has submitted an economic repair plan to the International Monetary Fund and it expects the fund's board to review it for approval at the end of August, the country's chief mi ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Broadening pay hikes among smaller firms is crucial, said Japan's top government spokesperson, Yoshimasa Hayashi, underscoring the administration's drive to achieve sustained wage ga ...