Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 September /corr.
Trend A.Badalova / At its today's meeting the European Central Bank (ECB) made a
decision to maintain base rate without changes at the level of 4.25%. This
decision coincided with the forecasts of many analysts.
The Head of the bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, said to press conference as a result
of the meeting that maintaining price stability in the intermediate-term plan
is the basic task of the Central Bank.
"We are decisive in the approach to
maintenance of intermediate-term and long-term expectations on the inflation,
taking into account the stability of prices," said Trichet, whose press
conference was transmitted on direct ether of the Vesti Television Channel.
According to him, this will support purchasing stability in the
intermediate-term plan, and also significant and stable increase and
employment.
The Head of the Central Bank mentioned decrease in the real GDP of Eurozone in 2008.
For the first
time since 2007, in order to combat the inflation, the interest rate was
increased by 0.25 percent points at the July meeting of the ECB. The purposeful
level of the inflation of Bank is 2%.
According to the preliminary data of statistical bureau Eurostat, in August
2008 the inflation in 15 countries, which are part of Eurozone, was 3.8% in the
annual calculation. The increase in the consumer prices was 4.1% in July.
According to the forecast of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the economic growth in
the Eurozone in 2008 will be 1.3%. Earlier the index of increase in this
region was forecasted at the level of 1.7%.
Early today at the meeting of the Committee on Credit
Money Policy of Bank of England, a decision was made to preserve accounting
rate without changes at the level of 5%.
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