UPDATE-This week in monetary policy: Israel, Ghana, Kenya, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Lesotho, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Fiji, Tajikistan, Gambia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Angola, Bulgaria, Zimbabwe & Dominican Rep.

November 29, 2019

By CentralBankNews.info

    (UPDATE – Angola’s central bank changed the scheduled Nov. 28 session of its monetary policy committee to Nov. 29 but said the agenda – which includes an analysis of the macroeconomic indicators, money and exchange markets – was unchanged.
The last meeting of the bank’s monetary policy committee was held on Oct. 23, with the committee keeping the BNA rate steady at 15.5 percent while it raised the reserve requirement, relaxed some of the limits on payments for imports and implemented a floating exchange rate regime for the kwanza.)

This week – November 24 through November 30 – central banks from 18 countries or jurisdictions are scheduled to decide on monetary policy: Israel, Ghana, Kenya, Colombia, Kyrgyz Republic, Nigeria, Lesotho, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Fiji, Tajikistan, Gambia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Angola, Bulgaria, Zimbabwe and Dominican Republic.
Following table includes the name of the country, the date of the next policy decision, the current policy rate, the result of the last policy decision, the change in the policy rate year to date, and the rate one year ago.

  The table is updated when the latest decisions are announced and can always accessed by clicking on This Week.
WEEK 48
NOV 24 – NOV 30, 2019:
ISRAEL 25-Nov 0.25% 0 0 0.25% DM
GHANA 25-Nov 16.00% 0 -100 17.00% FM
KENYA 25-Nov 8.50% -50 -50 9.00% FM
COLOMBIA 25-Nov 4.25% 0 0 4.25% EM
KYRGYZSTAN 25-Nov 4.25% 0 -50 4.75%
NIGERIA 26-Nov 13.50% 0 -50 14.00% FM
LESOTHO 26-Nov 6.50% 0 -25 6.75%
CAPE VERDE 26-Nov 3.50% 0 0 3.50%
MAURITIUS 27-Nov 3.35% 0 -15 3.50% FM
FIJI 28-Nov 0.50% 0 0 0.50%
TAJIKISTAN 28-Nov 13.25% 0 -75 14.00%
GAMBIA 28-Nov 12.50% 0 -100 13.50%
SOUTH KOREA 29-Nov 1.25% -25 -50 1.75% EM
SRI LANKA 29-Nov 7.00% 0 -100 8.00% FM
ANGOLA 28-Nov 15.50% 0 -100 16.50%
BULGARIA 29-Nov 0.00% 0 0 0.00% FM
ZIMBABWE 29-Nov 35.00% -3,500 2,000 N/A
DOMINICAN REP. 29-Nov 4.50% 0 -100 5.50%