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SEOUL (AFP) - – South Korea's central bank Friday froze its key interest rate at a record low for the 14th straight month, citing risks to the global economic recovery.
 
At his first rate-setting meeting, the new Bank of Korea governor Kim Choong-Soo and five policymakers left the benchmark seven-day repo rate unchanged at 2.0 percent for April.
 
The bank said the domestic economy, Asia's fourth largest, was sustaining its recovery trend.
 
Even though construction investment had been somewhat inactive, exports were buoyant and consumption and facilities investment had steadily increased, it said in a statement.
 
"This recovery trend is expected to be maintained. Considering the overseas risk factors, however, there still remains uncertainty as to the economic growth path," it added, citing debt problems in some European nations.
 
The bank said inflation was expected to be stable for some time and the upward trend of real estate prices had been blunted amid slow transactions.
 
It said the "accommodative policy stance" would be maintained for the time being to sustain the economic recovery, "taking into overall consideration financial and economic conditions domestically and abroad".
 
The freeze was widely expected since new governor Kim has stressed coordination with the government, which says it is too soon to scrap stimulus measures.
 
The bank had cut the rate by a total of 325 basis points between October 2008 and February last year.
 
"The timing of exit strategies by major advanced economies and the pace of the global economic recovery are expected to serve as a prerequisite for a rate hike," Oh Chang-Sup, an economist at IBK Securities, told Yonhap news agency.
 
"The central bank is likely to gradually raise the rate as early as the second half or starting in the first half of next year," he said.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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