{"id":35877,"date":"2013-02-01T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=35877"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:50:41","slug":"dominican-republic-holds-rate-inflation-in-target-13-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/02\/01\/dominican-republic-holds-rate-inflation-in-target-13-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic holds rate, inflation in target &#8217;13, &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) held its key interest unchanged at 5.0 percent as inflation is forecast to remain within the central bank&#8217;s target range this year and in 2014.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; BCRD, which cut it benchmark Monetary Policy Reference (MPR) rate by 175 basis points in 2012, said its inflation target for 2013 is 5.0 percent, plus\/minus one percentage point, and 4.5 percent for 2014, also with a one percentage point band.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The economy of the Dominican Republic expanded by around 4 percent in 2012, above the average for Latin America, based on a moderate recovery in the second half of the year but still below trend, the central bank said.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Dominican Republic&#8217;s&nbsp;Gross Domestic Product rose by 3.9 percent in the third quarter, compared with a 3.8 percent growth rate in both the first and second quarters.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank said it expects the country&#8217;s production to remain below potential this year and then expand further in 2014 &#8220;supported by an improvement in private consumption and investment, as total credit recovers and boosts economic activity,&#8221; the bank said in a statement from Jan. 31.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The inflation rate in the Dominican Republic rose slightly to 3.9 percent in December from November&#8217;s 3.7 percent and the impact on inflation from tax reform is estimated to be temporary so inflation will remain around the bank&#8217;s goal this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &nbsp; www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) held its key interest unchanged at 5.0 percent as inflation is forecast to remain within the central bank&#8217;s target range this year and in 2014.&nbsp; &nbsp; BCRD, which cut it benchmark Monetary Policy Reference (MPR) rate by 175 basis points in 2012, said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/02\/01\/dominican-republic-holds-rate-inflation-in-target-13-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dominican Republic holds rate, inflation in target &#8217;13, &#8217;14&#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-35877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877","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=35877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}