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View all search resultsThe central bank hinted at the Bank Indonesia (BI) Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday and Thursday at increasing its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate in trying to maintain the rupiah exchange rate at its reasonable value.
The Indonesia Deposit Insurance Corporation (IDIC) is maintaining its guaranteed interest rates — 5.75 percent for rupiah deposits in banks, 0.75 percent for foreign exchange deposits and 8.25 percent for rupiah deposited in microcredit banks.
Bank Indonesia (BI) hinted on Friday that it would increase its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate, which is currently at 4.25 percent, because of consistent external pressure that could potentially disrupt the country's economy.
Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the first time under Chairman Jerome Powell, raised the benchmark lending rate a quarter-point and forecast a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020, citing an improving economic outlook. Policy makers continued to project a total of three increases this year.
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