{"id":70853,"date":"2015-04-09T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=70853"},"modified":"2015-04-09T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:48:56","slug":"botswana-maintains-rate-inflation-to-remain-in-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/04\/botswana-maintains-rate-inflation-to-remain-in-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana maintains rate, inflation to remain in target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2057361102\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">April 9, 2015<\/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; Botswana&#8217;s central bank maintained its benchmark Bank Rate at 6.5 percent, noting the &#8220;positive outlook that is expected to keep inflation within the Bank&#8217;s 3-6 percent inflation objective in the medium term.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Bank of Botswana cut its rate in February by 100 basis points, citing an economic outlook and inflation forecast that provided scope to ease its monetary policy stance.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Botswana&#8217;s consumer price inflation rate eased to 2.82 percent in February from 3.6 percent the prior month, the sixth consecutive month of declining inflation despite a 5 percent increase in the alcohol levy in December.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Botswana&#8217;s central bank maintained its benchmark Bank Rate at 6.5 percent, noting the &#8220;positive outlook that is expected to keep inflation within the Bank&#8217;s 3-6 percent inflation objective in the medium term.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Bank of Botswana cut its rate in February by 100 basis points, citing an economic outlook and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853","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=70853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70854,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions\/70854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}