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Big central banks start 2025 heading in different directions

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The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths diverge.

Seven of the world's 10 major, developed-market central banks easing policy.

The European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 bps as expected on Thursday and kept more easing on the table.

Outlier Japan is firmly in hiking mode.

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