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CAIRO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank, as widely expected, left its key overnight interest rates unchanged on Thursday, saying both economic growth and core inflation were slowing. The bank kept its lending rate at 20.25% and its deposit rate at 19.25%. The median forecast in a poll of 17 analysts had been for the bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to leave rates steady. Five

By William Schomberg, Andy Bruce and Suban Abdulla LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The Bank of England halted its long run of interest rate increases on Thursday as the British economy slowed, but it said it was not taking a recent fall in inflation for granted. A day after a surprise slowing in Britain's fast pace of price growth, the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee voted by a narrow margin of 5-

Federal-funds futures are still indicating that traders expect the Federal Reserve will keep its benchmark interest rate at the current level this year, even as the Fed’s projections released Wednesday showed one more rate hike may be coming. Traders see a 73.1% probability that the Fed may keep its rate at the current target range of 5.25% to 5.5% at its next policy meeting in November,

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday for the second time in its past three meetings, a sign that it’s moderating its fight against inflation as price pressures have eased. But Fed officials also signaled that they expect to raise rates once more this year. The move to leave its benchmark rate at about 5.4% suggests that the Fed thinks it has time