{"id":23864,"date":"2011-09-15T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/15\/denmark-central-bank-holds-lending-rate-at-1-55-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:39:00","slug":"denmark-central-bank-holds-lending-rate-at-1-55-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/15\/denmark-central-bank-holds-lending-rate-at-1-55-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark Central Bank Holds Lending Rate at 1.55%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbanken.dk\/dnuk\/specialdocuments.nsf\" target=\"_blank\">Danmarks Nationalbank<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><span>held its key lending rate unchanged at 1.55% . &nbsp;The Bank also cut the interest on certificates of deposit -10 basis points to 1.00%, the current account rate -10 basis points to 0.90%, and held the discount rate at 1.25%. &nbsp;The Bank said in its press release: &#8220;The interest rate reduction follows Danmarks Nationalbank&#8217;s purchase of foreign exchange in the market. The short euro market rates have fallen and the spread to the equivalent Danish rates has tended to strengthen the Danish krone.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><span><br \/> <\/span><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span><span><span>Denmark&#8217;s central bank last raised the&nbsp;<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/07\/denmarks-central-bank-raises-lending.html\" target=\"_blank\">lending rate<\/a><\/span><span>&nbsp;by 25 basis points to 1.55% in July this year, after increasing the rate by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/04\/denmark-central-bank-raises-rate-25bps.html\">25 basis points<\/a>&nbsp;in April this year, mirroring the interest rate increases by the European Central Bank (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/08\/ecb-holds-interest-rate-at-150-resumes.html\">ECB<\/a>). &nbsp;The Danish Central Bank typically follows the moves of the ECB in order to keep its currency, the Krone, stable. &nbsp;Denmark reported an annual inflation rate of 2.6% in August and 2.9% in July, compared to 3.1% in May, and 2.9% in April this year. &nbsp;The Danish economy grew at a year on year rate of 2% in Q2, compared to 1.7% in Q1 2011 (2.9% in Q4 2010). &nbsp;The Danish krone (DKK) has strengthened about 3% against the US dollar this year, and last traded around 5.37.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<div><span><span><br \/> <\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-7016851059818115759?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Danmarks Nationalbank&nbsp;held its key lending rate unchanged at 1.55% . &nbsp;The Bank also cut the interest on certificates of deposit -10 basis points to 1.00%, the current account rate -10 basis points to 0.90%, and held the discount rate at 1.25%. &nbsp;The Bank said in its press release: &#8220;The interest rate reduction follows Danmarks Nationalbank&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/15\/denmark-central-bank-holds-lending-rate-at-1-55-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Denmark Central Bank Holds Lending Rate at 1.55%&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-23864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864","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=23864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}