{"id":123457,"date":"2019-07-31T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2019\/07\/31\/248660\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:38:22","slug":"armenias-central-bank-leaves-refinancing-rate-unchanged-at-5-75-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2019\/07\/31\/123457\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s central bank leaves  refinancing rate unchanged at  5.75%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, July 31 \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia&#8217;s Central Bank decided today to leave the refinancing rate unchanged at  5.75%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said  in June 2019 deflation of 1.9% was registered against deflation of 1.6% in the same period last year. As a result, the inflation at the end of June 2019 dropped to  2.5%. It said the drop was driven by a deeper seasonal decline in prices for a number of agricultural products. It said also that the natural inflation rose slightly during the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the regulator, despite the fact that the inflationary environment remains weak in the  basic food and commodities markets, it does not expect  inflationary pressures from the external sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank said it gives preference to a gradual recovery of inflation and considers it appropriate to maintain the current stimulating size of monetary conditions, leaving the refinancing rate unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 29 of the current year, the Central Bank, for the first time in almost two years, lowered the refinancing rate by 0.25 percentage points to 5.75%. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s Central Bank decided today to leave the refinancing rate unchanged at  5.75%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,12139,9216],"tags":[15837,15865,12669,310],"class_list":{"0":"post-123457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-central-bank-2","12":"tag-refinancing-rate","13":"tag-310"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}