Central Banks

Danish Central Bank Cuts Rate by Quarter-Point to Match ECB

  • Denmark’s current account rate lowered to 3.10% from 3.35%
  • Nationalbanken’s main mandate is to peg the krone to the euro
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Denmark’s central bank delivered a quarter-point interest-rate cut to match its euro-area counterpart and defend the krone’s peg to the common currency.

Nationalbanken, which doesn’t hold scheduled meetings, lowered its current account rate to 3.10% from 3.35%, it said on Thursday, its second reduction this year. It comes after the European Central Bank reduced its key deposit rate by the same margin earlier in the day.