Friday, July 18, 2014

Ukraine hikes key rate to highest level in decade - Yahoo News

Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's central bank announced plans Wednesday to set its highest discount rate in more than a decade to rein in soaring inflation and calm investors who are taking their money abroad.

The surprise decision to raise the main lending rate to 12.5 percent from 9.5 percent effective Thursday comes just weeks after the economy skirted imminent bankruptcy thanks to the promise of immediate international aid.

But an escalating pro-Kremlin insurgency in Ukraine's economically vital eastern industrial basin appears to have to have scared Western investors and put pressure on the ex-Soviet country's currency.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said consumer prices could grow by 17 percent on an annualised basis this year.

It noted that the rate had jumped to 12.0 percent in June from 0.5 percent in January -- a month before the ouster of a Moscow-backed leader prompted Russia's seizure of Crimea and encouraged the separatist revolt.

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