The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Monday decided to maintain the status quo on the policy rate. The MPC had met in April last in which it had jacked up the key policy rate by 100 basis points to a record high of 21% to control inflation. Since January 2022, the SBP raised rates by a total of 1,150bps.

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