The central bank will keep its refinancing rate

Rumors about what the controller will raise the refinancing rate is not justified. Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia has decided to leave it at the same level, while interest rates on operations to provide liquidity securities, also will not change. However, this does not mean that a minimum level of 7.75% per annum will continue in the next year. According to market participants, the rate can be raised as early as 2011, for example, believes the head of Treasury Bank "Express-credit" Renat Kamaletdinov stating that in the background of accelerating inflation, the Central Bank refinancing rate is likely to actually be increased, and at 25 nn . "The greater the increase will be difficult to go" - he stressed reduction refinancing can be called a major event that happened in the banking sector in 2010, change as it is now extremely inappropriate, the Director of the Department of Regional Business "Sotsgorbank Sergei Tsvetik. "Let's see what will happen next year, but it seems to me that the rate of increase is unprofitable so far," - he spoke. The opposite position was taken by the head of the Central Bank Sergey Ignatiev. He recently said that at the end of this year or first quarter of next central bank raised the refinancing rate. "Inflation begins to worry us," - commented Ignatieff.