{"id":27313,"date":"2012-02-11T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/02\/11\/bulgarian-national-bank-sets-base-rate-at-0-18\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:42:00","slug":"bulgarian-national-bank-sets-base-rate-at-0-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/02\/11\/bulgarian-national-bank-sets-base-rate-at-0-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian National Bank Sets Base Rate at 0.18%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\">\ntweetmeme_style = &#8216;compact&#8217;;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnb.bg\/index.htm\">Bulgarian National Bank<\/a> announced on the 31st of January that its base interest rate would be lowered 4 basis points to 0.18% as of 1 February 2012, compared to the previous rate of 0.22%, set in December for January. &nbsp;The February rate of 0.18% compares to 0.19% in February 2011, 0.24% in February 2010, and 3.92% in February 2009. &nbsp;Bulgaria reported inflation of 2.8% in December last year. &nbsp;The Bulgarian economy was unchanged in 3Q11 (0.3% in 2Q11), placing annual GDP growth at 1.3% (2.0% in 2Q11). &nbsp;Bulgaria&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/currency-regimes.html\">currency<\/a>, the Bulgarian Lev (BGN), is pegged at 1.95 against the Euro; the USDBGN exchange rate last traded around 1.49.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-75839820188210255?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tweetmeme_style = &#8216;compact&#8217;; The Bulgarian National Bank announced on the 31st of January that its base interest rate would be lowered 4 basis points to 0.18% as of 1 February 2012, compared to the previous rate of 0.22%, set in December for January. &nbsp;The February rate of 0.18% compares to 0.19% in February 2011, 0.24% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/02\/11\/bulgarian-national-bank-sets-base-rate-at-0-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulgarian National Bank Sets Base Rate at 0.18%&#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-27313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313","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=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}