Johnson, 25, played for the Toronto Raptors last season. The 6-foot-6 forward has averaged 6.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in 371 games (77 starts) with the Detroit Pistons, New Orleans Pelicans and Raptors. MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Russia's finance ministry is expected to increase its sales of foreign currency for state reserves to about $2.4 billion in the coming month, a Reuters survey showed on Thurs The finance ministry in January said it was restarting foreign currency operations, in Chinese yuan, to increase stability of domestic economic conditions and reduce the impact of energy market volatility on Russia's economy and public finan Russia halted FX interventions last year as the West imposed sweeping sanctions against Moscow after it launched what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine, which included the freezing of about $300 billion in foreign exchange reser Nearly 90% of economists who provided forecasts through the first quarter of next year, 26 of 29, expected the base rate to fall below 3.50% then, with a majority forecasting 3.00% or above, compared with 3.25% or higher in the previous p dollar was king for years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the yuan, or renminbi, has become a major player. ($1 = 75.3000 roubles) (Reporting by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Kim Cogh F1's blue-ribbon event in Monte Carlo had been in some doubt, with the most recent race in May set to be the last unless a new deal between the Automobile Club de Monaco and the sport's American owners Liberty Media could be agreed. The British Grand Prix is scheduled for July 9, coinciding with the middle weekend of Wimbledon. The Silverstone event is the 12th round of a world championship that will start earlier than usual, in Bahrain, on March 5, and conclude with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 26. After raising rates by 300 basis points since August 2021, the BOK is managing a shrinking economy - the 0.4% contraction last quarter was the first in 2/1-2 years - as well as falling exports and high household d The Las Vegas Grand Prix, the only new entry on the calendar, will be the penultimate round, on November 18 - one of three races in the United States next year - while F1 is set to return to China for the first time since 2019 with a round in Shanghai pencilled in for April 16. At the same time, consumer price inflation, at 5.20% in January, is well over double the central bank's 2.00% target and is not expected to return there for at least another year, according to a separate Reuters p New beginnings? Long-time radio DJ Gary Davies, 65, has said he's 'open to discussions' when it comes to the possibility of replacing Ken Bruce in BBC Radio 2's mid-morning slot (Gary pictured in 2018) "The risks to our view are if inflation turns out to be more persistent than we expect or if there is a meaningful hawkish re-pricing of the U.S. Fed policy trajectory." (Reporting and polling by Anant Chandak; Editing by Hari Kishan, Ross Finley and Barbara Le While he now hosts Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s having taken over from Sara Cox in 2018, he seems keen to let fans know he'd be happy to consider a more prominent slot after Ken, Steve Wright and Paul O'Grady left the station. Gary, who lives in London with his wife JJ and his cavapoo Chilli, made his comments after it emerged last week that BBC Radio 2 had lost 580,000 listeners during a year in which they ripped up their schedule and older stars including Ken, Steve and Paul were shipped out for younger DJs such as Scott Mills. Paul O'Grady, 67, who was at Radio 2 for 14 years, quit his show months after he was forced to share the time slot with comedian Rob Beckett, 37, while Ken Bruce, 71, last month announced his departure after 31 years on the UK's most popular radio programme. Team boss Christian Horner says Red Bull are 'not getting... 'Where's the pace gone?': Damon Hill claims Formula One... 'Whether you want to give up your country for sport... I... Nyck de Vries confirms he's held talks with Red Bull chief... Breakfast show host Zoe Ball has seen a drop in listeners, while Ken's listenership is also down - although his show is still the most listened to on the station with 8.2million, according to the radio audience research group Rajar. So-called 'Radio 2 refugees' have abandoned the station for Boom Radio - a station aimed at baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 - and Greatest Hits Radio, the new home of Ken Bruce, who will take his beloved PopMaster quiz with him in March. "Overall, we remain of the view that the BoK will embark on a prolonged rate pause. We expect the first rate cut to materialise in 2024, when we expect inflation to settle around the 2% mark and the U.S. (Federal Reserve) to piv "Towards the year-end, we expect inflation to converge towards the BOK's medium-term goal, which would therefore open up the room for the BOK to start cutting rates to bring policy into more neutral territory," Derrick Kam, Asia economist at Morgan Stanley, s