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Central banks are like wicketkeepers; always in spotlight during failures: RBI DG
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Central banks are like wicketkeepers; always in spotlight during failures: RBI DG

Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Swaminathan J has likened central banks to wicketkeepers in cricket or goalkeepers in football who often go unnoticed in…

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Central banks may scale back gold purchases in 2024, reports World Gold Council
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Central banks may scale back gold purchases in 2024, reports World Gold Council

Central banks may buy less gold in 2024 compared to 2023, when they had bought 1,037 tonnes of gold, according to a World Gold Council…

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A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023.(Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
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Riskiest real estate bonds are beating Nvidia’s returns

A previously gloomy corner of the debt world has become the biggest winning trade in global financial markets, producing returns that few traders have seen…

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Geopolitical shifts to be new sources of shocks for central banks: RBI governor Shaktikanta Das
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Geopolitical shifts to be new sources of shocks for central banks: RBI governor Shaktikanta Das

Persistent geopolitical disturbances and global economic fragmentations will present formidable challenges to central banks, Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das said, with his observations…

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Bank of Japan move a lesson for central banks, sign of changing times
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Bank of Japan move a lesson for central banks, sign of changing times

Bank of Japan’s comforting words, coming just a week after the rate hike—rather unparalleled in the once mystic world of central banking—is a testimony how…

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Geopolitics overtakes inflation at top of sovereign wealth fund worry list
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Geopolitics overtakes inflation at top of sovereign wealth fund worry list

By Libby George and Marc Jones Geopolitics overtakes inflation at top of sovereign wealth fund worry list LONDON, – Geopolitical rivalries, including brewing trade battles…

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktiknata Das poses for photos after receiving the 'Governor of the Year' award by Central Banking, in London, United Kingdom, Tuesday.(PTI)
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RBI chief Shaktikanta Das conferred ‘Governor of the Year’ award in London

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, who was chosen for the prestigious Governor of the Year Award 2023 earlier this year, has said that central banks at…

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Why does low unemployment no longer lift inflation?
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Why does low unemployment no longer lift inflation?

After the second world war he built a “hydraulic” model of the circular flow of income in an economy—a labyrinth of water tanks, valves and…

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Currency Impact: How investors can track the impact of currency on their portfolio? Tarun Birani explains
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Currency Impact: How investors can track the impact of currency on their portfolio? Tarun Birani explains

“RBI moves at the time whenever you see there is a risk off environment building up in the globe. What we have seen, the dollar…

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India can grow at about 7% despite global uncertainty: Former chief economic advisor K V Subramanian
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India can grow at about 7% despite global uncertainty: Former chief economic advisor K V Subramanian

Monetary policy across the world is guided by flawed monetary theory that puts the cart before the horse, i.e., gets the direction of causality wrong,…

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