{"id":37064,"date":"2013-03-25T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=37064"},"modified":"2013-03-25T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:50:26","slug":"vietnam-cuts-rate-100-bps-says-inflation-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/25\/vietnam-cuts-rate-100-bps-says-inflation-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam cuts rate 100 bps, says inflation under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: inherit\"> Vietnam&#8217;s central bank cut its benchmark refinancing rate by 100 basis points to 8.0 percent, as expected, saying inflation was under control and at a low level but firms have faced with numerous difficulties in expanding their output and business.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The State Bank of Vietnam, which cut rates by 600 basis points in 2012, said its discount rate had also been cut to 6.0 percent from 7.0 percent along with the overnight rate in the interbank market, which has been cut to 9.0 percent from 10.0 percent.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp;Vietnam&#8217;s consumer price inflation rate fell by 0.19 percent in March from February for an increase of 2.39 percent from the end of 2012, the central bank said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It attributed the low rate of inflation to joint measures together with the government, ministries and agencies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp;On an annual basis, Vietnam&#8217;s inflation rate was steady at 7.02 percent in February from January&#8217;s 7.07 percent.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The State Bank also said liquidity in the banking sector had improved while money markets, the exchange rate and inter-bank rates have been stable. International reserves have risen.<\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">However,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">production and business have faced with numerable difficulties due to the decline of the market\u2019s purchasing power,&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">and<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">&nbsp;the limited absorption of banking capital resources for recreating and expanding production and business,&#8221; the central bank said.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Last month&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 22px\">Vu Duc Dam<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 22px\">, head of the government office, told reporters&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\">that the central bank would cut interest rates and the level of bad debt in the banking system has been cut to 6 percent from 8.82 percent.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In 2012 Vietnam&#8217;s economic growth eased to 5.03 percent from 2011&#8217;s 5.9 percent.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 12pt;text-align: justify\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 12pt;text-align: justify\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Vietnam&#8217;s central bank cut its benchmark refinancing rate by 100 basis points to 8.0 percent, as expected, saying inflation was under control and at a low level but firms have faced with numerous difficulties in expanding their output and business.&nbsp; &nbsp; The State Bank of Vietnam, which cut rates by 600 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/25\/vietnam-cuts-rate-100-bps-says-inflation-under-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vietnam cuts rate 100 bps, says inflation under control&#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-37064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064","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=37064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}