KYIV, July 29 – The Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in one voice decided to lower refinancing rate following its meeting on July 17.

In particular, eight members of the committee voted for decrease of the refinancing rate by 0.5 percentage points (p.p.) – to 17%, one member voted for 1 percentage point – to 16.5%, reads a protocol of the meeting.