韩国央行将基准利率维持在0.50%不变

首尔，11月26日(新华社)——周四，韩国中央银行冻结了其政策利率，连续第六个月处于历史最低水平。

韩国央行(Bank of Korea)行长李柱烈(Lee Ju-yeol)和其他六名货币政策委员会成员决定将关键的七天回购利率维持在0.50%的历史低点不变。

韩国央行在3月份将目标利率下调了50个基点，以应对COVID-19疫情对经济造成的影响，5月份又将目标利率下调了25个基点，至历史最低水平。

冻结利率的决定符合市场预期。根据韩国金融投资协会(KFIA)对98位固定收益专家的调查，98%的人预测利率将维持不变。

SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's central bank froze its policy rate on Thursday at a record low for the sixth consecutive month.

Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Ju-yeol and six other monetary policy board members decided to leave the key seven-day repurchase rate changed at an all-time low of 0.50 percent.

The BOK cut its target rate by 25 basis points to the record-low level in May, after slashing it by 50 basis points in March to tackle an economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak.

The rate freeze decision was in line with market expectations. According to a Korea Financial Investment Association (KFIA) survey of 98 fixed-income experts, 98 percent predicted the rate on hold.