Key policy rate reduced to 7.5 percent

BELGRADE - The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has decided to reduce the key policy rate by 0.5 percent, and the key policy rate shall thus total 7.5 percent as of Thursday, the NBS press service released on Thursday.

In the adoption of the decision, the NBS Executive Board took into account the fact that in the conditions of increased global activity caused by a quantitative relaxation of the European Central Bank, a consistent implementation of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms and closing of precautionary arrangements with the International Monetary Fund are impacting a higher interest of investors for investments in Serbia, states the release.

This is supported by the drop of the country's risk premium and higher demand for government's securities by non-residents, states the release, adding that such developments and inflationary expectations oscillating around the 4 percent target rate create the room for the monetary policy to provide a contribution to the long-term sustainable recovery of the local economy.

Photo Tanjug, R. Prelic (illustration)

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