{"id":211826,"date":"2025-12-26T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:39:08","slug":"the-central-bank-of-egypt-lowers-interest-rates-by-1-in-its-last-meeting-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211826\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Bank of Egypt Lowers Interest Rates by 1% in Its Last Meeting of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SadaNews Economy &#8211; The Central Bank of Egypt decided to cut interest rates on deposits and loans by 1% today, Thursday, in the final meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee for the year 2025, bringing the rates to 20% for deposits and 21% for loans. It also decided to reduce the discount and credit rate by 100 basis points to reach 20.50%.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the Monetary Policy Committee at the Central Bank has reduced the deposit and lending rates by 7.25% since the beginning of the year, reaching 20% and 21%, respectively, marking the first reduction in interest rates in four and a half years, with a total of five reductions: 2.25% in April, 1% in May, 2% in August, 1% in October, and 1% in December, bringing the rates down from their all-time highs.<\/p>\n<p>This decision comes as the annual inflation rate in urban Egypt has slightly slowed to 12.3% in November, down from 12.5% in October, according to a statement from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews Economy &#8211; The Central Bank of Egypt decided to cut interest rates on deposits and loans by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,110359,110360,110358],"class_list":["post-211826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-110359","tag-110360","tag-110358"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}