{"id":170303,"date":"2020-05-10T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=170303"},"modified":"2020-05-10T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:45:17","slug":"this-week-in-monetary-policy-moldova-new-zealand-belarus-egypt-and-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/05\/this-week-in-monetary-policy-moldova-new-zealand-belarus-egypt-and-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in monetary policy: Moldova, New Zealand, Belarus, Egypt and Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2410655522\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">May 10, 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><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 This week &#8211; May 10\u00a0through May 16 &#8211; central banks from 5 countries or jurisdictions are scheduled to decide on monetary policy: Moldova, New Zealand, Belarus, Egypt and\u00a0Mexico.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Romania&#8217;s central bank was\u00a0originally\u00a0scheduled to decide on monetary policy on May 12 but its board decided on March 20, when it cut the rate 50 basis points at an emergency meeting, to suspend scheduled monetary policy meetings &#8220;given the high degree of uncertainty&#8221; surrounding economic and financial developments.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Instead, the central bank&#8217;s board will meet to\u00a0decide monetary policy when necessary.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Following table includes the name of the country, the date of the next policy decision, the current policy rate, the result of the last policy decision, the change in the policy rate year to date, and the rate one year ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 The table is updated when the latest\u00a0decisions are announced and can always accessed by clicking on\u00a0<a style=\"color: purple;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/this.html\"><span style=\"color: #3c318a; text-decoration: none;\">This Week<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: black; width: 609px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" span=\"7\" width=\"87\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border: none; font-weight: bold; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">WEEK 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 65pt;\" width=\"87\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border: none; font-weight: bold; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" colspan=\"3\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">MAY 10 &#8211; MAY 16, 2020:<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">MOLDOVA<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">11-May<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">3.25%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-125<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-225<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">6.50%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">NEW ZEALAND<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">13-May<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">0.25%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-75<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-75<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">1.50%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0DM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">BELARUS<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">13-May<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">8.75%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-25<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-25<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">10.00%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">EGYPT<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">14-May<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">9.25%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-300<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">15.75%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; height: 19pt; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" height=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">MEXICO<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">14-May<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">6.00%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-50<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl67\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">-125<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">8.25%<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'cambria' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: purple;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info \u00a0 \u00a0 This week &#8211; May 10\u00a0through May 16 &#8211; central banks from 5 countries or jurisdictions are scheduled to decide on monetary policy: Moldova, New Zealand, Belarus, Egypt and\u00a0Mexico. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Romania&#8217;s central bank was\u00a0originally\u00a0scheduled to decide on monetary policy on May 12 but its board decided on March 20, when it [&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-170303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170303","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=170303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170306,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170303\/revisions\/170306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}