The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has reduced the key policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to 7.5 percent.
This was announced by the central bank on Thursday.
The NBS Executive Board “took into account the fact that in the conditions of increased global activity caused by a quantitative relaxation of the European Central Bank, a consistent implementation of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms and closing of precautionary arrangements with the International Monetary Fund are impacting a higher interest of investors for investments in Serbia.”
“This is supported by the drop of the country’s risk premium and higher demand for government’s securities by non-residents, states the release, adding that such developments and inflationary expectations oscillating around the four percent target rate create the room for the monetary policy to provide a contribution to the long-term sustainable recovery of the local economy,” the bank said.
Source; B92
