Tunisia’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged with inflation in retreat and the government engaged in ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over a reform agenda and bailout package.
Banque Centrale de Tunisie, or BCT, kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 8% after a policy board meeting Friday, it said in a statement. Maintaining the key rate at its current level “should continue to support” a decline in inflation for the period ahead and bring it back to sustainable levels, it added.
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