This i is also called the base rate, official rate or policy rate.

central bank, Central Bank of Russia, interest rate, refi rate, Russia

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The base rate is also known as the bank rate or the base interest rate.

For a Member State which is not participating in the third stage of economic and monetary union, the reference rate referred to above shall be the equivalent rate set by its national central bank.

The negative interest rate currently corresponds to the SNB policy rate.

In the U.S., both the fed funds rate and core inflation are currently 2.20%, giving a real policy rate of zero.

Recently, the Federal Reserve increased the interest rates by a quarter of […]

If inflation is above target, the Bank may raise the policy rate.

The rate at which central banks lend is often called the base rate.

If inflation is above target, the Bank may raise the policy rate.

note: this is the Refinancing Rate, the key policy rate for the National Bank of Azerbaijan

The Fed’s key rate affects practically every other interest rate.

Even at today's Fed Funds rate of 1.69%, the real rate of interest is less than zero.

the decline in the equilibrium real interest rate and thus in the “neutral” policy interest rate, which limits the scope for use of countercyclical changes in the policy interest rate;