01.06.2017

Romania's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low 1.75% a year Friday, at this year's first rate-set policy meeting. more

11.04.2016

Romania's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low 1.75% a year at this year's last rate-set policy meeting held Friday. more

09.30.2016

Romania's central bank on Friday left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low 1.75% a year, but lowered minimum required reserve ratios on foreign currency liabilities to 10% from 12%. more

08.04.2016

Romania's central bank on Thursday kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low 1.75% a year, in line with analyst expectations. more

06.30.2016

Romania's central bank on Thursday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at an all-time low of 1.75% a year. more

05.05.2016

Romania's central bank on Thursday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at an all-time low of 1.75% a year, in line with analyst expectations. more

03.31.2016

The Romanian central bank Thursday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at an all-time low of 1.75% a year, in line with analyst expectations. more

02.05.2016

The Romanian central bank Friday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year, the bank said in a statement. more

02.03.2016

Romania’s central bank may keep its monetary policy rate at 1.75% at the upcoming meeting on February 5, a survey from the Association of Romanian Financial and Banking Analysts (AAFBR) showed. more

01.07.2016

The Romanian central bank Thursday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year but lowered minimum reserve requirement ratios for foreign currency deposits to 12% from 14%. more

01.07.2016

The year 2016 came with a first for the post-communist interbank market in Romania: the three-month ROBOR, used as a reference for the cost of leu loans fell to the all-time low of 0.98% per annum on more

01.05.2016

Most analysts expect Romania’s central bank (BNR) to keep the key rate at the all-time low of 1.75% this year, but signs of economy overheating and inflation returning to positive territory might more

12.07.2015

The fiscal relaxation and the economic growth may cause Romania’s central bank to increase its main monetary policy rate in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to analysts of Austria’s Erste more

11.09.2015

Romania's central bank may ease the key lending rate or minimum reserve requirement ratios further but the decision is influenced by domestic and external uncertainties, central bank governor Mugur more

09.30.2015

The Romanian central bank Wednesday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year, in line with analysts' expectations. more

08.04.2015

The Romanian central bank Tuesday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% per year in a widely expected move, as policymakers still expect the final version of the fiscal more

07.01.2015

Romania’s central bank kept its main monetary policy rate unchanged at 1.75%, as fears over a possible Greece exit from the euro-zone outweighed the extremely low inflation prospects. more

03.31.2015

Romania’s central bank on Tuesday lowered its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to a new record low of 2%, in a largely expected move, the sixth rate cut in the current reduction cycle more

02.04.2015

Romania’s central bank on Wednesday lowered its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to a new record low of 2.25%, in a largely expected move as the bank sees the inflation staying well more

01.08.2015

Interests on leu loans have gone down with each monetary policy easing step of Romania's central bank so they are now competing with the cost of foreign currency loans. The adjustment trend will more

01.07.2015

Romania’s central bank Wednesday cut its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points, to a record low 2.5%, in line with market expectations. more

11.05.2014

Romania’s central bank on Tuesday cut the key rate again, to 2.75%, in another attempt to encourage lending. Governor Mugur Isarescu urges banks to get close to their customers and not expect them more

11.04.2014

Romania’s central bank Tuesday cut its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points, to a record low of 2.75%, as inflation is still below its target while the economic growth is slowing down. more

11.03.2014

Romania’s central bank might cut the key rate to 2.75% in its Tuesday monetary policy board meeting, while keeping requirement ratio for leu deposits unchanged, according to a survey of the more

10.28.2014

Romania’s central bank may cut its main monetary policy rate to less than 3% a year in the upcoming days, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Tuesday. more