Emergency decision is intended to halt slide after currency dropped to weakest point in almost 17 months
Analysis: Interest rate hike just a sticking plaster for Russia’s war-fuelled economic woes
Russia’s central bank has hiked interest rates by 3.5 percentage points in an emergency move aimed at halting the rouble’s recent slide, after it fell to its weakest point in almost 17 months.
The decision to raise the key rate from 8.5% to 12% was announced after an extraordinary meeting of the bank’s board of directors, called after the rouble plunged past the psychologically key level of 100 to the dollar on Monday morning.
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