{"id":1331677,"date":"2025-12-11T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-nbu-left-the-key-rate-at-15-5-due-to-high-inflation-expectations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:55:58","slug":"the-nbu-left-the-key-rate-at-15-5-due-to-high-inflation-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-nbu-left-the-key-rate-at-15-5-due-to-high-inflation-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBU left the key rate at 15.5% due to high inflation expectations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"317\"><strong>The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to maintain the key interest rate at the current level of 15.5%. According to the regulator, inflation expectations of economic agents remain elevated despite the slowdown in price growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"publication-origin\">\n<p> The NBU press service reported this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"671\"> The NBU predicts that inflation will continue to decline thanks to new harvests, which will mitigate food price increases. Measures to support the attractiveness of hryvnia assets and the stability of the foreign exchange market will also curb fundamental price pressures, according to the regulator. At the same time, the rate of inflation decline will be slower than previously.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"1073\"> The National Bank notes that online search queries indicate growing public awareness of inflation. The foreign exchange market remains stable amid significant international aid\u2014Ukraine received $50.8 billion this year. However, risks remain related to potential additional defense and reconstruction costs, disruption to energy infrastructure, and labor shortages.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1303\"> Maintaining the rate at 15.5% allows hryvnia instruments to maintain their yield and supports the downward trend in inflation. The NBU notes that this decision will contribute to achieving the 5% target over the monetary policy horizon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1448\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The next review of the key rate will take place on January 29, 2026. The regulator promises to respond flexibly to further inflation risks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1448\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to maintain the key interest rate at the current level of 15.5%. According to the regulator, inflation expectations of economic agents remain elevated despite the slowdown in price growth. The NBU press service reported this. The NBU predicts that inflation will continue to decline thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":805280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1331677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}