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The past week in monetary policy saw 12 central banks reviewing monetary policy settings, with 6 adjusting interest rates. Those that changed interest rates were: Albania -25bps to 5.00%, Uganda +400bps to 20.00%, Kenya +400bps to 11.00%, Vietnam +100bps to 15.00%, Serbia -50bps to 10.75%, and Rwanda +50bps to 6.50%. Those that held rates unchanged [...]
The past week in monetary policy saw 13 central banks review interest rate levels and monetary policy settings. Those that changed rates were: Belarus +300bps to 30.00%, Kenya +75bps to 7.00%, and India +25bps to 8.25%. Russia and Denmark also adjusted the bands of their deposit and lending rates, while holding their main rates steady. [...]
The past week in central banking saw interest rate announcements from 17 central banks around the world. Just 4 of those central banks announced changes to interest rates: Armenia cut by -50bps to 8.00%, Tunisia cut by -50bps to 3.50%, and Serbia cut by -50bps to 11.25%, while Uganda increased by +200bps to 16.00%. Meanwhile [...]
The past week in monetary policy saw just 4 central banks review interest rate settings: Belarus increased +500bps to 27.00%, Brazil dropped -50bps to 12.00%, Israel held at 3.25% and Ghana held at 12.50%. Aside from interest rates, the People’s Bank of China was reported as planning to increase the scope of its Required Reserve [...]
The past week in monetary policy saw 8 central banks reviewing interest rates and monetary policy settings. Just one bank adjusted its main interest rate, with Thailand adding +25bps to 3.50%. Meanwhile the other central banks held interest rates unchanged: Turkey 5.75%, Hungary 6.00%, Namibia 6.00%, Egypt 8.25%, Sierra Leone 23.00%, Denmark 1.55%, and Mexico [...]
The past week in monetary policy saw just 5 central banks meeting to review monetary policy settings. Those that changed interest rates were: Iceland +25bps to 4.50% and Georgia -25bps to 7.50%. Meanwhile those that held interest rates unchanged were: Colombia 4.50%, Sri Lanka 7.00%, and Chile 5.25%. Elsewhere the Monetary Authority of Singapore released [...]
The past week in monetary policy was rocked by the turmoil in global sentiment in the wake of the US sovereign credit rating downgrade, and heightened concerns about contagion in the European sovereign debt crisis. In all, 11 central banks reviewed monetary policy rates, with the following banks adjusting rates: Qatar -50bps to 4.50%, Mozambique [...]
The past week in monetary policy saw 12 central banks reviewing monetary policy settings, with 2 expanding asset buying programs, and just 3 adjusting interest rate levels. Those that adjusted interest rates were: Pakistan -50bps to 13.50%, Uganda +100bps to 14.00%, and Turkey -50bps to 5.75%; Switzerland also adjusted its interest rate target range downward [...]
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The week in monetary policy saw 8 central banks announcing interest rate decisions. Of those that changed rates were: India +50bps to 8.00%, Nigeria +75bps to 8.75%, and Colombia +25bps to 4.50%. Meanwhile those that held monetary policy interest rates unchanged were: Israel 3.25%, Hungary 6.00%, New Zealand 2.50%, Kenya 6.25%, and the [...]
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The past week in monetary policy was relatively quiet, with just five central banks announcing interest rate decisions. The only central bank to adjust rates was the Banco Central do Brasil, which increased its Selic rate by 25 basis points to 12.50%. The other banks that held rates unchanged were: Canada at 1.00%, [...]
