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Explainer: What is the Central Bank Interest Rate?


Explainer: What is the Central Bank Interest Rate?
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Loans are central to a country’s economy – think credit cards, mortgages, commercial and government borrowing. But who determines how much loans cost? The nation's central bank interest rates. The mechanism is a useful, though imperfect tool – but how exactly does it work?

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