{"id":267510,"date":"2025-10-22T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=267510"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:13:32","slug":"the-central-bank-of-armenia-plans-to-lower-the-key-interest-rate-to-6-25-within-a-year-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/10\/22\/267510\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Bank of Armenia plans to lower the key interest rate to 6.25% within a year \u2013 WB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 22. \/ARKA\/.\u00a0<\/strong>Armenia\u2019s Central Bank (CBA) decided to keep the policy rate at 6.75 percent, while signaling a gradually easing cycle, with plans to reduce the refinancing rate to around 6.25 percent over the next 12 months. This is stated in the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 October 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, inflation rose to 3.7 percent (yoy), slightly up from 3.6 percent in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The major contributors to this increase were food and non-alcoholic beverages with 5.8 percent (yoy) inflation. Accounting for a combined 18 percent share in the consumption basket, inflation in health (3.5 percent) and transport (4.1 percent) also contributed to the rise in September\u2019s headline inflation,\u201d WB analysts note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s Central Bank (CBA) decided to keep the policy rate at 6.75 percent, while signaling a gradually easing cycle, with plans to reduce the refinancing rate to around 6.25 percent over the next 12 months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":161249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267510","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}