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Standard Bank Malawi posts 41% profit surge as economic conditions stabilise
Chief executive points to easing inflation and expected rate cuts as catalysts for sustained recovery in Malawian financial sector. Standard Bank Malawi has reported a 41 per cent rise in post-tax profit to K122bn for the year ended 31 December 2025, as the listed lender said a confluence of improving macroeconomic conditions was strengthening the […]The post Standard Bank Malawi posts 41% profit surge as economic conditions stabilise appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times.
Author: Thom Chiumia
enCategory: General
US Consumer Spending Picks Up as Inflation Hits Three-Year High
US consumer spending accelerated in May even as prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, suggesting Americans are powering through the fallout from the Iran war.
Author: Bloomberg News
enCategory: Business
When fish and chips were 32p a portion! How the price of a British bucket-and-spade holiday has changed since the 1976 heatwave
Denis Healey was in charge of the nation's finances - and inflation was at 16%, with interest rates a painful 15%...so how much did Brits pay for their candy floss, pints, and B&B in 1976?
enCategory: General
Nigeria Can Rise in One Generation, Adebayo Rolls Out Vision for National Renewal
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2027 general election, Adewole Adebayo, has unveiled an expansive vision for Nigeria’s future, pledging to tackle poverty, unemployment, insecurity
Author: Ima Ekanem
enCategory: General
Alpha Architect High Inflation and Deflation ETF (NASDAQ:HIDE) Trading Down 0.3% – Time to Sell?
Alpha Architect High Inflation and Deflation ETF (NASDAQ:HIDE) Trading Down 0.3% – Time to Sell?
Author: ABMN Staff
enCategory: General
BoJ’s Tamura Lays Out Tightening Roadmap to 2%
Bank of Japan board member Naoki Tamura laid out his clearest roadmap yet for further policy normalization on Thursday, saying the central bank’s baseline should be to raise interest rates by 25 basis points every few months until the policy rate reaches around 2%, which he views as a neutral level. Tamura said, “what I […]The post BoJ’s Tamura Lays Out Tightening Roadmap to 2% appeared first on ActionForex.
Author: ActionForex
enCategory: General
JPMorgan Chase unveils $50 billion buyback, Goldman Sachs raises dividend after Fed stress test
The announcements followed the release of the Federal Reserve's annual stress test, which found that all 32 large banks weathered a hypothetical recession.
enCategory: General
Fed’s Favorite Gauge Is Seen Showing Faster Inflation
The latest update to the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge is unlikely to challenge a growing consensus at the US central bank around the need for interest-rate hikes this year.
Author: Bloomberg News
enCategory: Business
Warsh’s gamble: A quieter Federal Reserve could mean volatile markets, higher rates
The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy. New chair Kevin Warsh has begun to reverse some of those steps because he believes that by signaling its intentions the Fed pigeonholes itself into a position on interest rates. Yet such an approach carries the risk of more violent swings in stock and bond prices, analysts say, and ultimately higher interest rates for consumers and businesses.
Author: AP News
enCategory: General
Energy prices expected to push inflation higher
High oil and gasoline prices are expected to push inflation higher when Statistics Canada reports its consumer price index for May on Monday.
Author: Globalnews Digital
enCategory: General
