The world's largest and top emerging economies agreed at a G20 meeting here Saturday a timetable on mutual monitoring of their economic policy, a European source told AFP.
Sri Lanka's central bank on Saturday said it has been buying gold to diversify its reserves amid volatile currency markets, days after India announced it had purchased 200 tonnes of the precious metal.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the G20 here Saturday to consider a tax on financial transactions to make banks more accountable to society.