{"id":41005,"date":"2013-08-14T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=41005"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:25:53","slug":"georgia-cuts-rate-for-5th-time-inflation-to-remain-too-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/14\/georgia-cuts-rate-for-5th-time-inflation-to-remain-too-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia cuts rate for 5th time, inflation to remain too low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Georgia&#8217;s central bank cut its rate by another 25 basis points to 3.75 percent, the central bank&#8217;s fifth rate cut this year, as inflation is forecast to remain below the bank&#8217;s target level in the medium term.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) said prices continued to decline in July due to a seasonal decrease in fruit and vegetable prices, along with the impact of a base effect, and inflation is first forecast to approach the bank&#8217;s target range in the second half of 2014.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Georgia&#8217;s consumer prices dropped by 0.2 percent in July, consolidating the deflationary trend in the last 18 months. The central bank targets inflation of 6 percent.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank started its easing&nbsp;cycle in July 2011 and has cut rates by 425 basis points since then. This year it has cut rates by 150 basis points.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Preliminary estimates suggest that Georgia&#8217;s economy expanded by 1.8 percent in the second quarter and the bank said economic activity is projected to &#8220;somewhat improve in the second half of the year, due to, inter alia, expected fiscal activity, thus reducing deflationary pressures.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the first quarter, Georgia&#8217;s&nbsp;Gross Domestic Product expanded by an annual 2.4 percent, down from 2.8 percent in the previous quarter and 7.5 percent in the third quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Georgia&#8217;s central bank cut its rate by another 25 basis points to 3.75 percent, the central bank&#8217;s fifth rate cut this year, as inflation is forecast to remain below the bank&#8217;s target level in the medium term.&nbsp; &nbsp; The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) said prices continued to decline in July &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/14\/georgia-cuts-rate-for-5th-time-inflation-to-remain-too-low\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Georgia cuts rate for 5th time, inflation to remain too low&#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-41005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005","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=41005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}