Egypt's central bank keeps benchmark rates unchanged

Thursday 23-04-2015 07:54 PM
Egypt's central bank keeps benchmark rates unchanged

An employee counts money at a bank in Cairo September 4, 2014. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

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CAIRO, April 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged at a monetary policy committee meeting on Thursday.

The overnight deposit rate remains 8.75 percent and the overnight lending rate is steady at 9.75, the bank said in a statement.

(Reporting by Stephen Kalin and Shadi Bushra; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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