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Bloomberg
14-07-2025
- Business
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Spain's Central Bank Picks Fed Official as New Chief Economist
The Bank of Spain appointed US Federal Reserve official David Lopez Salido as chief economist. Lopez Salido, who will take up the post in Madrid on Oct. 1, worked for almost two decades at the Fed's monetary-affairs division in Washington, where he's currently a senior associate director.
Bloomberg
11-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Tariff Turmoil Masks South Africa's Recovery, Standard Bank Says
The chaos wrought by a recent wave of US tariff actions may be obscuring early signs of recovery in South Africa's economy, Standard Bank Group Ltd. said. The recent downward revisions to the country's growth outlook are 'mostly a function of international flux, not so much a function of domestic concerns,' said Goolam Ballim, chief economist at Africa's largest bank by assets. 'It is international headwinds that have caused us to revise.'
