{"id":24164,"date":"2011-09-29T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/29\/taiwan-central-bank-holds-discount-rate-at-1-875\/"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:13:00","slug":"taiwan-central-bank-holds-discount-rate-at-1-875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/29\/taiwan-central-bank-holds-discount-rate-at-1-875\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Central Bank Holds Discount Rate at 1.875%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.gov.tw\/\">Central Bank of the Republic of China<\/a>&nbsp;(Taiwan) held its discount rate unchanged at 1.875% and the collateralized loan rate at 2.250% and the unsecured loans rate at 4.125%. &nbsp;Bank Governor, Perng Fai-nan, said:&nbsp;&#8220;A global slowdown and consumer prices stabilizing led to the decision,&#8221; and further noted &#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s imported inflation will cool as global prices ease in the next three months after peaking in the third quarter.&#8221; &nbsp;Perng also noted on the recent deterioration in conditions:&nbsp;&#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s economy won&#8217;t be as bad as back in 2008,&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><span><\/span><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><span>Taiwan&#8217;s central bank last raised the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/06\/taiwan-central-bank-raises-discount.html\">discount rate<\/a>&nbsp;12.5 basis points to 1.875% at its July meeting this year, also raising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/03\/taiwan-central-bank-raises-rate-125bps.html\">12.5 basis points<\/a> in March. &nbsp;The Bank also recently raised the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/07\/taiwan-central-bank-raises-minimum.html\">minimum liquidity<\/a> requirements ratios. &nbsp;Taiwan reported annual consumer price inflation of 1.32% in July, compared to 1.93% in June, 1.7% in May, and 1.3% in April this year, meanwhile the government is forecasting 2011 inflation of 2.1%. &nbsp;The Taiwan economy grew 5% year on year in the June quarter (6.2% in Q1 2011); slower than 2010&#8217;s 10.9% economic growth rate, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<div><span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-1699280454766192945?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Central Bank of the Republic of China&nbsp;(Taiwan) held its discount rate unchanged at 1.875% and the collateralized loan rate at 2.250% and the unsecured loans rate at 4.125%. &nbsp;Bank Governor, Perng Fai-nan, said:&nbsp;&#8220;A global slowdown and consumer prices stabilizing led to the decision,&#8221; and further noted &#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s imported inflation will cool as global prices ease &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/29\/taiwan-central-bank-holds-discount-rate-at-1-875\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taiwan Central Bank Holds Discount Rate at 1.875%&#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-24164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164","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=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}