Reserve Bank holds rates steady as inflation backs off
23 September 2016 - 09:55
The Reserve Bank kept its benchmark repo rate unchanged at 7% yesterday, a weak economic growth outlook offsetting its worries about inflation. The Bank's monetary policy committee revised its growth forecast to 0.4% for this year, having said in July that the economy would not grow at all.Inflation is expected to average 6.
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