Central Banks

Bank of Botswana’s New Governor Extends Pause in First Meeting

  • MPC held key rate at 2.65% for seventh straight meeting
  • Inflation expected to remain in target range in medium term

The central business district of Gaborone, Botswana.

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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Botswana kept its key interest rate unchanged for a seventh straight timeBloomberg Terminal as inflation is expected to remain within its target range in the medium term.

The policy committee on Thursday left the monetary policy rate at 2.65%, Governor Cornelius Dekop told reporters in the capital, Gaborone. The meeting was his first as governor since replacing Moses Pelaelo on Oct. 21, who retired.