{"id":167470,"date":"2020-03-26T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=167470"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:22:56","slug":"czech-central-bank-cuts-rate-75-bps-in-2nd-march-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/03\/czech-central-bank-cuts-rate-75-bps-in-2nd-march-easing\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech central bank cuts rate 75 bps in 2nd March easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-705484454\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">March 26, 2020<\/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 \/>\nThe Czech Republic&#8217;s central bank lowered its benchmark policy rate for the second time in two weeks and adopted additional measures to stabilize the country&#8217;s economy, hit by the outbreak of the coronavirus, or Covid-19.<br \/>\nThe Czech National Bank (CNB) cut its 2-week repo rate by a further 75 basis points to 1.0 percent and has now cut it by 125 points this month as it makes a sharp U-turn after raising the rate by 25 points rate on Feb. 6 to curb rising inflation.<br \/>\nIn a statement, CNB said its Bank Board would announce the measures at a press conference later today.<br \/>\n<a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Czech National Bank issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: #195bb3; color: #195bb3; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;At its meeting today, the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank lowered the two-week repo rate (2W repo rate) by 75 basis points to 1.00%. At the same time, it lowered the Lombard rate to 2.00% and the discount rate to 0.05%. The new interest rate levels come into effect on 27 March 2020.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: #195bb3; color: #195bb3; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">The Bank Board also adopted additional measures to stabilise the domestic economy, which will be announced at a press conference attended by Deputy Governor Tom\u00e1\u0161 Nidetzk\u00fd and Bank Board member Tom\u00e1\u0161 Holub. The press conference will be held at 3.15 p.m. as a videoconference for accredited journalists and will be streamed live on the CNB website.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: #195bb3; color: #195bb3; margin-bottom: 1rem;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'roboto condensed' , 'arial' , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"date\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: #0275d8; color: #0275d8; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.300000190734863px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info The Czech Republic&#8217;s central bank lowered its benchmark policy rate for the second time in two weeks and adopted additional measures to stabilize the country&#8217;s economy, hit by the outbreak of the coronavirus, or Covid-19. The Czech National Bank (CNB) cut its 2-week repo rate by a further 75 basis points to 1.0 [&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-167470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167470","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=167470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167472,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167470\/revisions\/167472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}