{"id":272838,"date":"2026-05-11T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=272838"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:56:38","slug":"edb-assessed-the-reasons-for-rising-inflation-in-armenia-and-maintenance-of-refinancing-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/05\/11\/272838\/","title":{"rendered":"EDB assessed the reasons for rising inflation in Armenia and maintenance of refinancing rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 11. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Inflation in Armenia accelerated in April amid rising prices for food and non-food products, according to the Eurasian Development Bank&#8217;s weekly macro review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the EDB, annual inflation in Armenia rose to 5.3% in April, up from 4.5% the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The main factor was the acceleration of food inflation, reaching 9.5% y-o-y compared to 7.8% y-o-y in the previous month. Non-food price growth also accelerated, reaching 1.5% y-o-y from 0.8% y-o-y. Meanwhile, inflation in the services segment stabilized at 2.6% y-o-y,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EDB noted that, under these circumstances, the Central Bank of Armenia maintained the refinancing rate at 6.5% at its May meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulator&#8217;s decision could also have been influenced by a possible reduction in Armenia&#8217;s risk premium, which would imply a lower rate trajectory, the review notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation in Armenia accelerated in April amid rising prices for food and non-food products, according to the Eurasian Development Bank&#8217;s weekly macro review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":269401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,9214,12139,9216],"tags":[12579,12225,15849],"class_list":{"0":"post-272838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-banks-en-en","9":"category-economy-en","10":"category-news","11":"tag-edb","12":"tag-inflation","13":"tag-15849"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272838","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=272838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272839,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272838\/revisions\/272839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}