July 2025 - Page 3

In June, UK consumer price inflation unexpectedly climbed to 3.6 per cent – the highest rate since January 2024, driven by rising food, fuel, and transport costs, and catching markets by surprise. This

The Bank of Japan is set to raise its inflation outlook for fiscal 2025, acknowledging persistent upward pressure from food costs such as rice, while keeping its 0.5% short-term policy rate unchanged

Bitcoin has soared past the $120,000 threshold, marking a new all-time high of $123,153 and reaffirming its emergence as a maturing financial asset within institutional portfolios. This record, reached on 14 July,

Since March, Beijing has urged banks to bolster low‑interest consumer lending to ignite household spending as a countermeasure to ongoing trade tensions, yet growth remains tepid and debt failures are mounting.  Despite

Bitcoin has surged to an all-time high, climbing above $116,700 on Friday as institutional demand and favourable U.S. policy signals converged to drive new momentum. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has now gained

The Bank of Japan’s latest regional survey reveals a nuanced picture: although U.S. tariffs have so far exerted limited pressure on Japanese exports and industrial output, firms are growing increasingly anxious about

From the outset, Australia’s central bank has signalled a meaningful shift in financial market infrastructure with the launch of Project Acacia, a trial involving real-money settlement experiments across diverse asset classes. Beginning

UniCredit’s pursuit of a €17 billion Banco BPM bid and its strategic expansion in Commerzbank are entering a pivotal phase this week, with implications rippling across Italy and Germany. As the Italian court weighs

In a move that caught markets off guard, the Reserve Bank of Australia held its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.85%, defying expectations of a cut and triggering immediate reaction across currency