{"id":19161,"date":"2026-01-26T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=19161"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:43:27","slug":"state-bank-to-announce-monetary-policy-today-interest-rate-likely-to-enter-single-digit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=19161","title":{"rendered":"State Bank to Announce Monetary Policy Today, Interest Rate Likely to Enter Single Digit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State Bank of Pakistan is set to announce its first monetary policy of the new year today, with expectations that the key policy rate may move into the single-digit range.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Monetary Policy Committee will hold its meeting at the State Bank\u2019s head office in Karachi, where members will conduct a detailed review of economic indicators, the prevailing inflation situation, and other key economic factors.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, the official decision regarding the policy rate will be announced by State Bank Governor Jameel Ahmad through a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth recalling that in the last monetary policy of 2025, the State Bank had reduced the policy rate by half a percentage point, bringing it down to 10.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to economic experts, recent Treasury bill auctions have provided clear signals of further easing, as the interest rate on government borrowing from banks has returned to single-digit levels for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Survey reports also indicate that with Treasury bill yields falling into the single-digit range, the likelihood of a further reduction in the policy rate has strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that improvements in foreign exchange reserves, better control over inflation, and rising remittances could prompt the State Bank to cut the policy rate by 0.5 to 1 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Bank of Pakistan is set to announce its first monetary policy of the new year today, with expectations that the key policy rate may move into the single-digit range. In this regard, the Monetary Policy Committee will hold its meeting at the State Bank\u2019s head office in Karachi, where members will conduct a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,46],"tags":[6647,215,4666,5034,650,10502],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-economic-outlook","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rate","tag-monetary-policy","tag-state-bank-of-pakistan","tag-treasury-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19163,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions\/19163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}