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Russian central bank will resume foreign exchange purchases from Jan. 15 as the situation on the domestic financial market has stabilised, the central bank said in a statement on Friday.

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Russia’s central bank on Friday raised its key interest rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5 percent, the bank said in a statement on its website. (Reporting by Moscow Newsroom)

The Reserve Bank of India's board deliberated on the central bank's governance framework and has decided that the matter required further examination, the central bank said on Friday.

Weak economic data from China sent Britain's top stock index sharply down on Friday as banks, miners and consumer stocks suffered from investors' mounting anxiety about the world's second-biggest economy.

European hospital and nursing bed maker LINET Group is in talks with three or four bidders over the potential sale of a stake and could wrap up a deal in the first half of 2019, the company's founder and main shareholder said.

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Most Southeast Asian stock markets closed lower on Friday after a set of weak data from the region's biggest trade partner China signalled at concerns around global economic slowdown and apprehensions over Washington and Beijing's trade negotiations. China's November retail sales grew at the weakest pace...

London Stock Exchange Group said on Friday its stake in its clearing house LCH had risen to 82.6 percent, as it closed the acquisition of an additional 14.6 percent from some minority shareholders for 424.5 million euros ($479.4 million).