Dhaka, Jan. 7 -- Elevated policy interest rate is likely to stay unchanged in the upcoming monetary policy stance (MPS) for the second half (H2) of this fiscal year as inflation rebounds after some remission.

Despite an outcry from the business circles over higher lending-rate regime amid persisting economic slowdown, Bangladesh Bank (BB) continues its contractionary monetary-policy stance to contain higher inflationary burdens by way of keeping the policy or REPO rate as high as 10 per cent prevalent since October 2024.

Under such tightfisted regulatory stance on money supply meant to check price escalations, Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Ahsan H. Mansur on several occasions made a clear statement over adjustment of policy rate that the ...