{"id":41865,"date":"2013-09-10T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=41865"},"modified":"2013-09-10T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:42:20","slug":"mozambique-holds-rate-steady-inflation-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/09\/10\/mozambique-holds-rate-steady-inflation-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique holds rate steady, inflation stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Mozambique&#8217;s central bank kept its benchmark standing facility rate (FPC) steady at 8.75 percent, saying inflation was stabilizing around the bank&#8217;s objectives for this year and next.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), which has cut rates in June and August by a total of 75 basis points, also said the new business confidence index had slowed down due to a deterioration in the prospects for demand and employment.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Most business sectors showed a deterioration, while the construction sector was stable and transport and communications are expected to improve, the central bank said.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In August Mozambique&#8217;s inflation rate eased to&nbsp;4.34 percent, down from 4.58 percent in July and the third month of declining inflation after a 2013 high of 4.9 percent in May as extensive flooding at the beginning of the year pushed up food prices and then inflation.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The central bank&#8217;s policy committee also decided to intervene in interbank markets to ensure the monetary base does not exceed 43.817 billion meticais by the end of September, unchanged from the bank&#8217;s August target.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The central bank&#8217;s net international reserves rose by US$ 407 during August to $2.825 billion, with gross international reserves enough to cover 6.5 months of imports. End-August, the Mozambique metical was quoted at 29.85 to the U.S. dollar, a 4.04 percent depreciation year-on-year.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;The stability of the nominal metical, in a context of low inflation, has allowed for a maintenance of the external competitiveness of the economy and this has been signaled by the real effective exchange rate,&#8221; the central bank said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Mozambique&#8217;s central bank kept its benchmark standing facility rate (FPC) steady at 8.75 percent, saying inflation was stabilizing around the bank&#8217;s objectives for this year and next.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), which has cut rates in June and August by a total of 75 basis points, also said the new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/09\/10\/mozambique-holds-rate-steady-inflation-stable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mozambique holds rate steady, inflation stable&#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-41865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865","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=41865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}