Czech National Bank Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: February 6, 2013; 17:47 ♦ (Vindobona)

The CNB Bank Board decided at its meeting today to keep interest rates unchanged. The two-week repo rate was maintained at 0.05%, the discount rate at 0.05% and the Lombard rate at 0.25%.

Czech National Bank Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged / Picture: © Czech National Bank

Repo rate: The CNB’s key monetary policy rate, paid on commercial banks’ excess liquidity as withdrawn by the CNB in two-week repo tenders.

Discount rate: A monetary policy rate which as a rule represents the floor for short-term money market interest rates. The CNB applies it to the excess liquidity which banks deposit with the CNB overnight…