Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — The Central Bank of Egypt decided, Thursday, to keep interest rates at 19.25% and 20.25%, respectively, “attributing inflation to the bank’s expectations,” according to the bank’s view. زیادة فیلم “لم تعریف المنتدى الإناسب للدرترة على الثنفلة في قرآن”, في ذل تفعلهه بكريسة على المنتدى الأجنبي.

And Egypt faced an economic crisis with the outflow of indirect foreign investments and the rise of the import bill in the wake of the wave of global inflation and the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and this crisis affected the shortage of foreign currency and the rise of the local inflation rate to unprecedented levels, which prompted the Central Bank of Egypt to increase interest rates by 1100 basis points. منذ شهر March 2022.

Al-Khair Banker Hani Abu Al-Futuh said that the Egyptian Central Bank remained on the interest rate “as a result of the failure to increase the interest rate in controlling the rate of inflation or even close the inflation gap with the bank’s targets at 7% (±2 percentage points) during the fourth quarter of 2024”. It is modeled after the central bank increased the interest rate by 11 percentage points since March 2022 when core inflation reached 40.4% by the end of August, indicating that “raising the interest rate is no longer a viable monetary tool to control inflation”.

The Central Bank of Egypt raised interest rates 6 times between March 2022 and August 2023 by a total of 1100 basis points divided between 800 basis points during 2022 and 300 basis points between March and August of the current year.

Abu al-Futuh added, in a special statement to CNN in Arabic, that “the reasons for the increase in the rate of inflation in Egypt are related to the crisis of the shortage of foreign currency, which affected the accumulation of goods in the port, and the increase in the cost of importing production supplies and raw materials, and with the continuation of the shortage of the dollar, the increase in the interest rate in Egypt will not be able to control inflation, unlike the United States of America, which succeeded in tightening monetary policy during the past months in order to control inflation, which led the American Fed to stabilize interest rates in the last meeting.

According to the data of the Central Bank of Egypt, the annual rate of inflation in the city rose to 37.4% in August 2023 from 36.5% in July 2023, and saw the annual rate of core inflation drop to 40.7% in July 2023 and 40.4% in August 2023. 2023 compared to 41.0% in June 2023

And I expected the Central Bank of Egypt to increase the interest rate at the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee during 2023, and related the decision to the government’s ability to treat the main causes of the increase in the rate of inflation, thus increasing the interest rate will play a role in controlling inflation.

واقدت السيسائي المنذاء بالبنك کنبری 6 meetings during عام 2023 The first day is 2 November and the second day is 21 December.

The expert banker Tarek Mutawli said that fixing the interest rate “comes within the framework of the government’s vision to reduce the impact of the economic crisis on citizens, as the inflation rate is far from the target of the Central Bank of Egypt and the rate has reached unprecedented levels of more than 40%, which would have required an increase in the interest rate to control the “Al-inflation except that the state adopts a vision to mitigate the negative impact of the economic crisis on the Egyptian citizen”.

During this week, the government allocated a new 60 billion pounds (1.9 billion dollars) to increase the wages of state employees and beneficiaries of the program “تكافل وكرامة”, which is a program of cash support for the most needy people, in order to alleviate the burden on citizens.

Metwalli agreed, with what Hani Abu al-Futuh mentioned, that the interest rate increase is no longer the most appropriate monetary tool to control the inflation rate, which has reached levels far from the target of the central bank, and that the interest rate increase is mainly related to the increase in cost as a result of the foreign currency shortage crisis, adding that The central bank favors to fix the interest rate हित्य युच्च मन तथायाइत करीजी अल्याण अल्याज़ी

And Tarek Mutoli, in a special statement to CNN in Arabic, linked the interest rate increase to zero during the last meeting of the monetary policy committee at the central bank this year, to improve the global economic situation, and to overcome the crisis of foreign currency shortage locally, which may prompt the central bank to continue stabilizing until the end of the year. 2023.

The Federal Reserve Bank of America and the Bank of England stayed on the interest rate during their meeting on Wednesday, leaving the interest rate in the range of 5.25 and 5.50%, the highest level for the United States in nearly 22 years.