{"id":120655,"date":"2018-01-30T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T03:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=120655"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:43:47","slug":"moldova-maintains-rate-sees-steady-drop-in-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/01\/moldova-maintains-rate-sees-steady-drop-in-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova maintains rate, sees steady drop in inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1682442076\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">January 30, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Moldova&#8217;s central bank left its basic interest rate at 6.50 percent, saying this decision was based on the latest economic forecasts that showed a slight easing of the rate of growth in 2018 and 2019, mainly due to disinflationary pressures on aggregate demand and the effect of a high base in 2017.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Today&#8217;s decision by the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) follows the bank&#8217;s shift to a neutral policy stance in December 2017 after 22 months of rate cuts in which the key rate was lowered by 13 percentage points from February 2016.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The NBM&#8217;s latest forecast shows that inflation will decline steadily from 7.3 percent in December to around 2.5 percent by the fourth quarter of 2018.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Subsequently, inflation is seen returning to the bank&#8217;s target of 5.0 percent, plus\/minus 1.5 percentage points, in the second quarter of 2019.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For the full 2018 year the NBM forecasts average inflation of 3.7 percent and 4.7 percent for 2019.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In the third quarter of 2017 Moldova&#8217;s economy grew by an annual rate of 5.4 percent, up from 2.5 percent in the second quarter, supported by household consumption and fixed investments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #fafafa; color: #56534f; font-family: &quot;PT Serif&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" style=\"font-family: &quot;PT Serif&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Moldova&#8217;s central bank left its basic interest rate at 6.50 percent, saying this decision was based on the latest economic forecasts that showed a slight easing of the rate of growth in 2018 and 2019, mainly due to disinflationary pressures on aggregate demand and the effect of a high base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120656,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120655\/revisions\/120656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}