{"id":33281,"date":"2012-11-02T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/11\/romania-holds-policy-rate-steady-at-5-25-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:01:00","slug":"romania-holds-policy-rate-steady-at-5-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/11\/02\/romania-holds-policy-rate-steady-at-5-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania holds policy rate steady at 5.25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank of Romania held its policy rate steady at 5.25 percent, as expected, saying that it would continue to ensure &#8220;firm liquidity management in the banking system,&#8221; and retained the current levels of minimum reserve requirements on both leu and foreign currency deposits.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The National Bank of Romania (NBR), which has cut its policy rate by a total of 75 basis points in the first three months of the year, also said it would release the quarterly inflation report on Nov. 7.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Inflation in Romania rose to 5.3 percent in September, the highest in 15 months, up from 3.4 percent in August.&nbsp;The NBR targets inflation of 3.0 percent in 2012 and 2.5 percent in 2013, with a one percentage point variation band.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Its current forecast calls for inflation of 3.2 percent at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, and in 2013 inflation is forecast to range from 2.6 percent end-first quarter to 3.0 percent at the end of the fourth quarter.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Romania&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product rose 0.5 percent in the second quarter from the first, for an annual growth of 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-6643236425373954457?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News &nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank of Romania held its policy rate steady at 5.25 percent, as expected, saying that it would continue to ensure &#8220;firm liquidity management in the banking system,&#8221; and retained the current levels of minimum reserve requirements on both leu and foreign currency deposits.&nbsp; &nbsp; The National Bank &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/11\/02\/romania-holds-policy-rate-steady-at-5-25-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romania holds policy rate steady at 5.25%&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}