Brazil’s annual inflation accelerated in early January, underscoring lingering price pressures as central bankers gather for their first interest rate decision of 2026.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank held interest rates steady on Wednesday for a second straight policy meeting and signaled it would keep them unchanged for a long time, dropping language that referred to the pause as an "interruption" of its rate ...

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South Korea's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.5%, extending a pause since May. Expanded property curbs across Seoul and Gyeonggi Province highlight mounting concern over housing inflation. Seoul’s stalled $350 billion trade ...

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Policymakers said inflation was still too high, with the underlying measure hovering around 3% and a restrictive monetary policy remained necessary.

India's central bank has put on hold plans to ask domestic lenders to disclose and manage risks from climate change, three sources directly familiar with the discussions said.