{"id":24725,"date":"2011-10-26T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2011\/10\/26\/hungary-central-bank-keeps-interest-rate-at-6-00\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T07:57:00","slug":"hungary-central-bank-keeps-interest-rate-at-6-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/10\/26\/hungary-central-bank-keeps-interest-rate-at-6-00\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Central Bank Keeps Interest Rate at 6.00%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aXwBvsm-POs\/Tqe9maVrUnI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/E5W_b9WzVyQ\/s1600\/Hungary-26-10-11.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"235\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aXwBvsm-POs\/Tqe9maVrUnI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/E5W_b9WzVyQ\/s320\/Hungary-26-10-11.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><span><span><span><span><span>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnb.hu\/\">Magyar Nemzeti Bank<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><span>kept its central bank base rate unchanged at 6.00%. &nbsp;The Bank said: &#8220;In the Council&#8217;s judgement, the outlook for growth has worsened significantly recently. Consumption demand is likely to be persistently low, reflecting the protracted process of balance sheet adjustment by households, uncertain income prospects and the further tightening in credit conditions. Significant fiscal adjustment next year is also likely to act as a brake on domestic demand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.hu\/en\/economy\/instant_view_hungary_cbank_keeps_rates_unchanged_sees_cpi_risk_in_persistently_weak_forint_4.23143.html\">growth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" name=\"more\"><\/a><span><span><span>The Magyar Nemzeti Bank also&nbsp;held the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/09\/magyar-nemzeti-bank-hungary-holds-rate.html\">interest rate<\/a>&nbsp;unchanged at 6.00% during its September meeting, after raising it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/01\/hungary-central-bank-raises-rate-25bps.html\">25 basis points<\/a> in January this year. &nbsp;Hungary reported annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rttnews.com\/Content\/AllEconomicNews.aspx?Id=1741506&amp;SM=1\">inflation<\/a> of 3.6% in September and August, compared to 3.1% in July, 3.5% in June, 3.9% in May, and 4.7% in April.&nbsp; Hungary&#8217;s Central Bank has a medium term&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/inflation-targets.html\">inflation target<\/a>&nbsp;of 3%, while the Bank expects inflation to average 3.9% this year.<br \/> <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span>The Hungarian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-10-25\/hungary-bank-in-wait-and-see-mode-on-debt-crisis-price-risk.html\">economy<\/a> grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the June quarter, compared to 2.4% in the march quarter, and 1.9% GDP growth recorded in the December quarter last year. &nbsp;The Hungarian forint (HUF) has lost about 2% against the US dollar this year, the HUFUSD exchange rate last traded around 214<br \/> <\/span><br \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-6126175938643223291?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Magyar Nemzeti Bank&nbsp;kept its central bank base rate unchanged at 6.00%. &nbsp;The Bank said: &#8220;In the Council&#8217;s judgement, the outlook for growth has worsened significantly recently. Consumption demand is likely to be persistently low, reflecting the protracted process of balance sheet adjustment by households, uncertain income prospects and the further tightening in credit conditions. Significant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/10\/26\/hungary-central-bank-keeps-interest-rate-at-6-00\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hungary Central Bank Keeps Interest Rate at 6.00%&#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-24725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725","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=24725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}