In July, the IMF, the European Commission, and the Asian Development Bank updated their previous world economic development forecasts. In the updated IMF forecast, the global GDP growth rate for 2022 is reduced to 3.2% because of a slowdown in the movement of that indicator in the largest G20...

Following its board meeting on October 28, the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged at 7.5% per annum, which is in line with the analyst consensus forecast and financial market expectations. This decision was the result of a reversal in the inflationary trends, an increase in the...

The Bank of Russia has left the key rate unchanged at 7.5% per annum at the meeting on February 10, which coincided with the consensus forecast of analysts and expectations of the financial market. However, the Central Bank tightened the signal on further dynamics of the key rate as compared to...

Following its board meeting on October 28, the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged at 7.5% per annum, which is in line with the analyst consensus forecast and financial market expectations. This decision was the result of a reversal in the inflationary trends, an increase in the...

The UN and the European Commission have revised downward the global GDP growth estimate to 3.1–3.2% in 2022, a decrease compared with the IMF outlook released in April (3.6%). The economic growth outlooks for China and the US in 2022 were lowered to 4.2–4.6% and 2.4–2.9%, respectively. At...

Global economic growth rates keep slowing down with economic outlooks getting worse. In August, Moody’s lowered projections of G20’s growth rates to 2.5% in 2022. By Moody’s estimates, the eurozone will be facing recession in 2023. The factors affecting the economic situation include an...

In Q3 2020, the pace of economic recovery in many countries turned out to be higher than expected. However, this growth only in part offset the deep recession that had been observed in Q2. In the majority of countries, output is well below its pre-crisis levels. The “second wave” of the...

Russian Abstract: В 2020 г. в России наблюдался значительный рост доли наличных денег в обращении. Основными источниками этого дополнительного объема наличных стали...