{"id":41485,"date":"2013-08-29T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=41485"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:55:58","slug":"fiji-holds-rate-comfortable-outlook-for-inflation-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/29\/fiji-holds-rate-comfortable-outlook-for-inflation-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji holds rate, comfortable outlook for inflation, reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Fiji&#8217;s central bank kept its Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) steady at 0.5 percent, saying the current accommodative policy stance remains appropriate to support domestic growth given the &#8220;comfortable outlook for foreign reserves and inflation.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Reserve Bank of Fiji, which has maintained its rate since December 2011, said Fiji&#8217;s economy had shown great resilience so far and was forecast to expand by 3.2 percent this year on the back of strong domestic consumption and investment.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Earlier this month, the central bank revised upward its 2013 growth forecast to 3.2 percent from 2.7 percent in the national budget, compared with 2012&#8217;s estimated 2.2 percent growth. If the forecast rate is achieved, it will be the strongest growth rate since 2004.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Growth in 2014 and 2015 is forecast at 2.5 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank&#8217;s mid-year survey showed improvements in business and investor confidence and indicates continued robust economic activity well into next year while the financial system remains &#8220;awash with liquidity&#8221; and lending rates are low, providing further impetus for economic activity.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank noted that its twin objectives remained intact, with July&#8217;s inflation rate rising to 1.9 percent in July from 1.5 percent in June, and foreign reserves of around $1.834 billion, sufficient for 5.1 months of imports.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Fiji&#8217;s central bank kept its Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) steady at 0.5 percent, saying the current accommodative policy stance remains appropriate to support domestic growth given the &#8220;comfortable outlook for foreign reserves and inflation.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Reserve Bank of Fiji, which has maintained its rate since December 2011, said Fiji&#8217;s economy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/29\/fiji-holds-rate-comfortable-outlook-for-inflation-reserves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fiji holds rate, comfortable outlook for inflation, reserves&#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-41485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485","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=41485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}