{"id":122016,"date":"2019-02-04T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=122016"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:09:28","slug":"central-bank-keeps-its-interest-rate-at-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/central-bank-keeps-its-interest-rate-at-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank keeps its interest rate at 5.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Central-Bank-logo-e1546950606804.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120857\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic announced on 31 January 2019 that it would maintain its monetary policy reference interest rate at the current 5.5%. This decision was based on the -0.22% inflation rate for December, ending the year at 1.17%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The underlying inflation, which isolates the effects of volatile components, closed the year at 2.47%. The system of forecasts indicates that inflation converges gradually to the range of 4.0% +\/- 1% at the 24-month horizon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published the update of its report on World Economics and they stressed the deceleration of world economic growth, reducing their projection for 2019 from 3.7% to 3.5% and for 2020 from 3.9% to 3.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/4209-bcrd-mantiene-su-tasa-de-politica-monetaria-en-550--anual\">Banco&nbsp;Central<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic announced on 31 January 2019 that it would maintain its monetary policy reference interest rate at the current 5.5%. This decision was based on the -0.22% inflation rate for December, ending the year at 1.17%. The underlying inflation, which isolates the effects of volatile components, closed the year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/central-bank-keeps-its-interest-rate-at-5-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122168,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122016\/revisions\/122168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}