{"id":45499,"date":"2013-12-17T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=45499"},"modified":"2013-12-17T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:55:45","slug":"serbia-cuts-rate-50-bps-policy-aims-at-boosting-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/12\/17\/serbia-cuts-rate-50-bps-policy-aims-at-boosting-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia cuts rate 50 bps, policy aims at boosting inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Serbia&#8217;s central bank cut its policy rate by 50 basis points to 9.5 percent, citing below-target inflation, and said monetary policy would be geared towards raising inflation to the bank&#8217;s 4.0 percent target.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Serbia&#8217;s inflation rate fell to 1.6 percent in November from 4.9 percent in October, below the Bank of Serbia&#8217;s target range of 2.5-5.5 percent around a 4.0 percent midpoint.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Bank of Serbia has now cut rates five times since May by a total of 175 basis points.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Medium-term inflation is expected to move closer to the target, set at 4% until 2016, and monetary policy measures will be geared towards that end,&#8221; the central bank said, adding that inflation expectations had now fallen to a historic low and markets expect inflation to move within the bank&#8217;s target range in coming months.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The bank attributed low inflation to the relative stability of the exchange rate along with sharp disinflation in food prices due to weak domestic demand.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Serbia&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product expanded by 0.3 percent in the third quarter from the second for annual growth of 3.2 percent, up sharply from the second quarter&#8217;s 0.2 percent growth.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last month the central bank cut its 2014 growth forecast to 1.5 percent from a previous 2.5 percent due to the government&#8217;s fiscal consolidation plans. Growth this year is forecast at 2 percent.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Serbia&#8217;s central bank cut its policy rate by 50 basis points to 9.5 percent, citing below-target inflation, and said monetary policy would be geared towards raising inflation to the bank&#8217;s 4.0 percent target.&nbsp; &nbsp; Serbia&#8217;s inflation rate fell to 1.6 percent in November from 4.9 percent in October, below the Bank &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/12\/17\/serbia-cuts-rate-50-bps-policy-aims-at-boosting-inflation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serbia cuts rate 50 bps, policy aims at boosting inflation&#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-45499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45499","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=45499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}