Monetary policy kept unchanged
The monetary policy for the first half of the current fiscal year has been announced keeping its rates unchanged. The repo and reverse repo rates remain at 7.25 percent and 5.25 percent respectively as they were in the previous monetary policy.
“[But] BB will have no hesitation in considering easing of the repo and reverse repo policy interest rates to appropriate extent immediately as headline point-to-point and core CPI inflation assume clear downward edging turn,” said Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman at a programme on the ...