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Taiwan c.bnk to adjust rates to suitable levels
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TAIPEI, Nov 18 - Taiwan's central bank will adjust interest rates to an appropriate level to ensure financial stability, the governor said, after the authority cut rates four times in over a month to weather the global financial storm.
"We will use all kinds of monetary tools to maintain appropriate growth in money supply," central bank governor Perng Fai-nan said in a report to be delivered to the parliament on Thursday and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
"We will adjust interest rates to an appropriate level to ensure stability in the financial market," Perng said.
Earlier this month, the central bank lowered its benchmark discount rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent, the lowest level since March 2007 as global central banks cut rates to spur growth in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression.
Many economists expect the central bank to cut rates further in the fourth quarter as some key economies, such as Japan and the euro zone, have entered a recession, crimping demand for Taiwan's flagship electronics exports.
Economic worries have pushed the Taiwan dollar <TWD=TP> lower in recent months, with the local currency losing about 11 percent since hitting a 10-1/2-year high in late March. The Taiwan dollar ended at a 3-week low of T$33.234 to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday.
Perng also said in the report the central bank expected its 2009 profit to fall 9.6 percent to T$121.4 billion ($3.7 billion) from an expected T$134.3 billion for this year due to smaller investment returns after the wave of global rate cuts.
"Our revenues will fall sharply because the rate cuts by global central banks have pushed interest rates of the U.S. dollar, the euro and the yen lower," Perng said.
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