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Key Rate

An interest rate that a bank uses to determine the interest rates it charges borrowers and pays depositors. Common key rates include the fed funds rate, the fed discount rate, and the LIBOR.

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The MB is expected to slash key rates by at least 25 basis points on Thursday to help boost domestic growth.

Investors on the lookout for GDP boost after another slip in Q2

Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its base rate this week, concern is growing that the reversal of key rates between Korea and the United States will trigger capital flight from Seoul.

Concerns growing over possible capital flight

Prospects for import growth among Norway's trading partners is somewhat weaker than in June and expected key rates have fallen slightly.

Norway : The key policy rate unchanged at 0.50 percent

The adjustment in key rates was kept on hold yesterday as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) saw more stable consumer prices through 2016.

Regulator keeps interest rates steady

The European Central Bank (ECB) has to lower its key rates further and step up its injections of liquidity in order to combat the risk of deflation in the eurozone, say senior officials at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

ECB SHOULD LOWER RATES, SAYS IMF

-Hungary central bank holds key rates steady

NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank needs to adopt a more hawkish monetary policy to tame inflation; a central bank official said two day after the apex bank raised key rates by up to 50 basis points.

INDIA IN THE NEWS

Other key rates will fall as well, the central bank said.

Russia cuts key interest rate by 25 basis points

6 August 2009 - Denmark's central bank, Nationalbanken, is likely to keep its key rates unchanged now and to cut them by 10 basis points in early September, Danske Bank forecast before today's meeting on prime rates of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Danske Bank expects c-bank to cut key interest in Sep '09

Other central banks are also setting their key rates at low levels.

BOE leaves key rate at record low 0.5%, will continue buying assets

Signs of growing pressures in the economy will generate expectations of higher key rates, with an attendant increase in market rates.

Transparency and predictability in monetary policy (1)

The two other key rates were also reduced by 0.5 percentage point each.

ECB leaves interest rates unchanged

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