Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting on July 28 to discuss short- and long-term measures for keeping inflation under control, stabilising the macro-economy, and promoting socio-economic recovery and development.

VOV.VN - The State Bank of Vietnam will continue to keep interest rates unchanged in order to sustain macro-economic stability and control inflation, in contrast with the ongoing trend adopted by central banks of many countries worldwide, according to economic experts.

Experts forecast that bank net interest margins (NIM) will decline as inflation rises next month.

The Government has set the budget overspending cap in 2022-2023 at 1%-1.2% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), not exceeding VND240 trillion.

Thanks to increases in savings interest rates, deposits at banks increased strongly in the first two months of this year after declining last year.

Loans of pandemic-hit enterprises will enjoy an interest rate cut of 2% under a government support package to remove difficulties for the businesses.

Vietnam’s GDP growth this year may be over 6.5% if high global inflation can be harnessed, the roadmap of the US Federal Reserve (Fed)’s interest rate raises is on schedule and economies worldwide are fully open.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has to continually inject money to support the liquidity of the banking system as the capital demand and interest rates on the interbank market have remained high though the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday ended.

The deposit growth rate of individual customers at banks slowed last year due to the impacts of the pandemic.

Many banks have increased their interest rates to attract more depositors after getting a credit growth quota expansion from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).