{"id":27936,"date":"2012-03-04T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/04\/bulgarian-national-bank-reduces-base-rate-3bps-to-0-15\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:52:00","slug":"bulgarian-national-bank-reduces-base-rate-3bps-to-0-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/04\/bulgarian-national-bank-reduces-base-rate-3bps-to-0-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian National Bank Reduces Base Rate 3bps to 0.15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntweetmeme_style = 'compact';\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnb.bg\/index.htm\">Bulgarian National Bank<\/a><span>\u00a0announced on the 29th of February that its base interest rate would be reduced by 3 basis points to 0.15% as of 1 March 2012, compared to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2012\/02\/bulgarian-national-bank-sets-base-rate.html\">previous rate<\/a> of 0.18% set for February, and 0.22%, set in December for January. \u00a0The March rate of 0.15% compares to 0.18% in March 2011, 0.18% in March 2010, and 3.49% in March 2009. \u00a0Bulgaria reported inflation of 2.8% in December last year. \u00a0The Bulgarian economy was unchanged in 3Q11 (0.3% in 2Q11), placing annual GDP growth at 1.3% (2.0% in 2Q11). \u00a0Bulgaria&#39;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/currency-regimes.html\">currency<\/a><span>, the Bulgarian Lev (BGN), is pegged at 1.95 against the Euro; the USDBGN exchange rate last traded around 1.49.<\/span> <\/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\/8290544642025682538-8633124508205059531?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Bulgarian National Bank\u00a0announced on the 29th of February that its base interest rate would be reduced by 3 basis points to 0.15% as of 1 March 2012, compared to the previous rate of 0.18% set for February, and 0.22%, set in December for January. \u00a0The March rate of 0.15% compares to 0.18% in March 2011, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/04\/bulgarian-national-bank-reduces-base-rate-3bps-to-0-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulgarian National Bank Reduces Base Rate 3bps to 0.15%&#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-27936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936","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=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}