{"id":28507,"date":"2012-03-23T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/23\/national-bank-of-ukraine-cuts-discount-rate-25bps-to-7-5\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:41:00","slug":"national-bank-of-ukraine-cuts-discount-rate-25bps-to-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/23\/national-bank-of-ukraine-cuts-discount-rate-25bps-to-7-5\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bank of Ukraine Cuts Discount Rate 25bps to 7.5%"},"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>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bank.gov.ua\/control\/en\/index\">National Bank of Ukraine<\/a> cut its discount rate by 25 basis points to 7.50% from 7.75% previously. The bank also cut the rate for transactions backed by treasury bills and the rate for non-collateral transactions by the same margin to 8.50% and 10.50% respectively. &nbsp;The bank also eased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/p\/interest-rates.html\">reserve requirements<\/a> in order to boost lending to the real sector of the economy. &nbsp;Ukraine reported inflation of 3% in February and 3.7% in January this year. &nbsp;The Ukrainian economy grew 4.6% on an annual basis in the December quarter (6.6% in Q3, 3.8% in Q2). &nbsp;Ukraine&#8217;s currency, the Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH), last traded around 8.03 against the US dollar.<\/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\/8290544642025682538-5180872259904592654?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Ukraine cut its discount rate by 25 basis points to 7.50% from 7.75% previously. The bank also cut the rate for transactions backed by treasury bills and the rate for non-collateral transactions by the same margin to 8.50% and 10.50% respectively. &nbsp;The bank also eased reserve requirements in order to boost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/23\/national-bank-of-ukraine-cuts-discount-rate-25bps-to-7-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Bank of Ukraine Cuts Discount Rate 25bps to 7.5%&#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-28507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507","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=28507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}