JAKARTA: Indonesia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time since September 2017, ahead of an anticipated Federal Reserve cut late this month, as it tries to help lift economic growth.
Bank Indonesia (BI) trimmed the seven-day reverse repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.75%, as predicted by 23 of 33 economists in a Reuters poll.
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