{"id":22205,"date":"2011-07-06T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?guid=8d81cc42eb5862a2bbd0625ce12fcb83"},"modified":"2011-07-06T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:38:00","slug":"poland-central-bank-holds-interest-rate-at-4-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/06\/poland-central-bank-holds-interest-rate-at-4-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Central Bank Holds Interest Rate at 4.50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbp.pl\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(55, 120, 205); \">Narodowy Bank Polski<\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">&#39;s Monetary Policy Council maintained its benchmark 7-day interest rate unchanged at 4.50%. \u00a0The Bank said: &quot;In the coming months, the annual CPI inflation rate will continue at an elevated level, mainly due to the strong growth in global commodity prices observed prior to the inflation increase.&quot; \u00a0The Bank also noted that it would &quot;not rule out a further adjustment of monetary policy, should the outlook fro inflation&#39;s return to the target deteriorate&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n<div> <font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">The Bank also held unchanged the following rates: the rediscount rate at 4.75%, the Lombard rate at 6.00%, and the deposit rate at 3.00%. \u00a0The Bank last raised the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/06\/national-bank-of-poland-raises-policy.html\">interest rate<\/a> by 25 basis points to 4.50% in June this year<\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">. \u00a0<\/span><\/font><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">Poland reported inflation of 5% in May, up from 4.5% in April, 4.3% in March, and higher than the Bank&#39;s official inflation target of 2.5% +\/- 1%.\u00a0<\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \"><br \/> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(55, 120, 205); \">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-773504853587609638?l=www.centralbanknews.info' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Narodowy Bank Polski&#039;s Monetary Policy Council maintained its benchmark 7-day interest rate unchanged at 4.50%. \u00a0The Bank said: &quot;In the coming months, the annual CPI inflation rate will continue at an elevated level, mainly due to the st&#8230;<\/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-22205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}