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The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced a 200 basis point cut in interest rates during its Monetary Policy Committee meeting on Thursday 28\/8\/2025.<\/p>\n
The overnight deposit rate was reduced to 22%, the lending rate to 23%, and the main operation rate to 22.5%. The discount rate was also lowered to 22.5%.<\/p>\n
The CBE attributed the decision to easing global and domestic inflation, improving growth outlook, and reduced external and fiscal risks.<\/p>\n
Domestically, real GDP growth is expected to reach 4.5% in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced a 200 basis point cut in interest rates during its Monetary Policy Committee meeting on Thursday 28\/8\/2025. The overnight deposit rate was reduced to 22%, the lending rate to 23%, and the main operation rate to 22.5%. The discount rate was also lowered to 22.5%. The CBE attributed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7089,5934,7210,415,6989,4378,257,6732,6720,12850,254],"class_list":["post-205887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-central","tag-cuts","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-interest","tag-news","tag-north","tag-percent","tag-rates","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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