다음은 11일 한국은행이 발표한 '통화정책방향' 영어전문입니다.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Korea decided today to leave the Base Rate unchanged at 3.25% for the intermeeting period.
Based on currently available information, the Committee considers that, while emerging market economies have shown favorable performances, the recoveries in major advanced economies including the US have exhibited signs of weakening. Going forward, the Committee forecasts that the global economy will keep up its pace of recovery; nevertheless, the Committee recognizes the possibility of such factors as the potential for continuing economic slowdown in major countries, the spread of sovereign debt problems in Europe, and international financial market unrest posing downside risks to the global economy.
For Korea, the Committee judges the economy to have maintained its underlying upward trend, given for instance that exports show robust growth and that domestic demand is increasing modestly. Labor market conditions have also remained on a track of improvement, led by the private sector. The Committee judges that the domestic economy will keep up this underlying trend going forward, but that uncertainty as to the growth path has intensified due to the impact of external risk factors.
Consumer price inflation rose to the 4.7% level in July, due mostly to sharp rises in the prices of agricultural products including vegetables. The Committee expects the high level of inflation to continue in the coming months, driven largely by demand-side pressures resulting from the underlying uptrend in economic activity and by inflation expectations. Core inflation meanwhile increased to the 3.8% level, and this uptrend is seen persisting for the time being. As for housing prices, those in Seoul and its surrounding areas weakened, while prices in the rest of the country posted rates of increase similar to those for June. The rate of leasehold deposit increase rose in July compared to the previous month, with transactions becoming more active.
In the financial markets, stock prices and long-term market interest rates have fallen sharply and the Korean won has depreciated against the US dollar since the start of August, due mainly to heightened external risk and international financial market instability. Mortgage lending posted a steady rise in July, as in the previous month.
Looking ahead, the Committee, while closely monitoring financial and economic conditions both at home and abroad, including factors potentially disruptive to the financial markets, will conduct monetary policy with a greater emphasis on ensuring that the basis for price stability is firmly anchored while the economy continues its sound growth.
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