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Stephen Harper says the social gathering would meet the brand new dedication over 4 years by concentrating on refugees from spiritual minority teams within the area who face persecution or the specter of extremist violence.

Too few details about the Conservative Party’s promise to ban travel to terrorism hotbeds has people like Maria Al-Masani anxious she may never see some family members again.

The Federal Reserve is expected to raise its key interest rate next month for the first time in nearly a decade.

Amongst many campaign promises, Stephen Harper proposed a travel ban to “places that are ground zero for terrorist activity”.

Thursday’s debate could turn out to be the only time four leaders – let alone five – gather on the same stage to trade barbs in English during the campaign.

In the end, only Ian McCafferty wanted to hike rates at the August meeting which ended on Wednesday, resulting in an 8-1 vote in favor of keeping rates at their record low of 0.5 percent, the BoE said.

Markets have ramped up expectations of a rise in rates several times in the past three years, only to be disappointed.

The BoE’s Inflation Report, showed officials expect annual inflation to tick back up to the 2% target by the third quarter of 2017 if interest rates rise in line with market expectations.

Similarly, factory output growth dropped in May, but the point to note is that it has now been positive for five months in a row, and the average growth since January at 3.5% is much higher than what we had seen in the second half of past year.

The report was not bad enough to derail the Fed’s and markets’ expectations for a rate hike this year, and it was not stellar enough to lock in a September rate hike.

The odds of a rate increase-based on trading in Fed-funds futures-at the September meeting were 56% Friday, compared with 46% before the jobs report and 48% Thursday, according to traders.

According to the minutes, Mr McCafferty thought that there were risks “of a more significant overshoot of inflation following its return to the target”.

Euro zone bond yields stabilised on Thursday, after a sharp rise the previous day fuelled by concern that the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England were heading for their first interest rate increases in nearly a decade.

Meanwhile, RBI on Tuesday kept the repo rate, at which it lends to the system, unchanged at 7.25 per cent and the cash reserve ratio, which is the proportion of deposits banks have to park with the central bank, at 4 per cent. The move was predicted by 39 of 42 economists in a...

The central bank on Tuesday kept the repo rate, or the rate at which it lends money to commercial banks, unchanged at 7.25%, and the cash reserve ratio, or the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), at 4%.