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Canadian Retail Trade, October 2025
Retail sales decreased 0.2% to $69.4 billion in October. Sales were down in four of nine subsectors, led by decreases at food and beverage retailers. Core retail sales, which exclude gasoline stations and fuel vendors and motor vehicle and parts dealers, were down 0.5% in October. In volume terms, retail sales decreased 0.6% in October. Core retail sales decreased 0.5% in October, posting their second consecutive monthly decline. The largest decrease to core retail sales came from food and beverage retailers (-2.0%), with beer, wine and liquor retailers (-10.6%) contributing the most to the decline. The decrease in ... (full story)
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At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan decided, by a unanimous vote, to set the following guideline for money market operations for the intermeeting period: The Bank will encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around 0.75 percent. In accordance with the change in the guideline for money market operations, the Bank decided, by a unanimous vote, to change the interest rates applied to its measures. Interest rate applied to the complementary deposit facility The interest rate applied to the complementary deposit facility (the interest rate applied to current account balances held by financial institutions at the Bank, excluding required reserve balances) will be 0.75 percent. 
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Decision at the December 2025 MPM It is highly likely that the mechanism in which both wages and prices rise moderately will be maintained. • The likelihood of realizing the baseline scenario that underlying CPI inflation will be at a level that is generally consistent with the price stability target of 2 percent in the second half of the projection period of the October 2025 Outlook Report has been rising. • While uncertainties remain, they have declined. • It is highly likely that firms will continue to raise wages steadily next year, following the solid wage increases this year. • The risk of firms' active wage-setting behavior being interrupted is low. BOJ: JAPAN'S REAL RATE IS AT SIGNIFICANTLY LOW LEVEL BOJ: TO RAISE RATES IN LINE WITH ECONOMIC, PRICE IMPROVEMENT BOJ: ACCOMMODATIVE CONDITIONS TO KEEP SUPPORTING ECONOMY
From fxdailyreport.com | Dec 19, 2025
On Friday, the Bitcoin price bounced from the session lows of about $85,282 to trade at about $87,941 after the latest data. The BTC/USD trades within a slightly descending channel formation in the 60-minute chart. Friday’s rebound pushed the price of the pioneer cryptocurrency slightly above the 100-hour moving average line. As a result, Bitcoin is on the ...
China's military will step up training and "take forceful measures" to safeguard the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the defence ministry said on Friday (Dec 19) in response to a planned US$11.1 billion United States arms sales package to Taiwan. The package, the largest ever by the US to the island Beijing views as its own territory, ...
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