Kazakhstan to maintain borrowing costs as grain stokes prices
09:40, 8 September 2012
ASTANA. September 8. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan, central Asia's biggest energy producer, doesn't plan to cut borrowing costs this fall, the central bank said.
"We don't see any reason to further cut interest rates too aggressively," central bank Chairman Grigori Marchenko told reporters on Wed in Almaty. Grain prices are a "concern" as they may stoke inflation, he said, Bloomberg reports.
Policy makers trimmed the benchmark refinancing rate by half a percentage point to 5.5 percent last month.
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