Bank of Israel Retains 0.25% Key Interest Rate
September 22, 2014
Following back-to-back cuts of 25 basis points in July and August, Israeli monetary officials left their key interest rate at 0.25% as most forecasters were expecting. This level is even below the the 0.5% trough seen for five months in the middle of 2009. The rate had been lowered in eight moves between October 2008 and March 2009 by a total of 425 basis points but then raised 275 basis points to a cyclical peak of 3.25% in June 2011. Since September 2011, there have been a dozen cuts of 25 basis points, three times this year (February, July, and August).
A statement released today projects an acceleration of growth from 2.3% this year to 3.0% in 2015, along with CPI inflation of 1.0% in the year to September 2015. The CPI target is 1-3%, and consumer prices in August were unchanged from a year ago. The top priority of monetary policy is returning inflation to its target, hopefully within a year and by allowing the shekel to decline if that’s necessary
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. For now policy appears to be on pause, pending forthcoming data to assess the effect of the rate cuts implemented this past summer.
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