| 3/5/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 5.75 percent from 5.0 percent to tackle inflation that has hit the highest level since 1990.
The hike is the first under new central bank gover... |
| 3/7/2018 - Phosphate production in Tunisia’s Metaloui and Mdhila resumed and shipments restarted after protesters agreed to temporarily end their sit-in over job demands, officials and protesters told . ... |
| 3/8/2018 - Tunisia has made progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund over the next tranche in its loan programme and hopes to get a positive assessment later this month, its central bank governor s... |
| 3/8/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank is unable to defend the dinar with foreign reserves that have fallen to less than 80 days’ worth of imports, the bank’s new governor said . The current account deficit ... |
| 3/8/2018 - Tunisia central bank expects average annual inflation to hit 7.2 percent this year before falling to between 5 pct and 6 pct in 2019, a central bank official said .
In February annual inflation was 7... |
| 3/29/2018 - Tunisia must improve its business climate and cut red tape to attract more investment and create jobs, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said . In its first rep... |
| 4/10/2018 - Tunisia plans to recover 6.5 billion dinars ($2.72 billion) of bad loans in three public banks as part of its banking reforms, the minister of economic reforms told Reuters . Banking reform w... |
| 5/16/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank said it kept its key interest rate unchanged at 5.75 percent. In March, the central bank raised the rate to 5.75 percent from 5.00 percent to tackle the inflation that ... |
| 5/28/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank said it kept its key interest rate unchanged at 5.75 percent.
The decision to keep interest rates on hold comes after the International Monetary Fund pushed for a rise in inte... |
| 5/28/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank said that the time was right to issue a planned Eurobond worth $1 billion to finance the budget and balance of payments deficits. It also said that it had kept its ke... |
| 5/30/2018 - Tunisia has expressed a firm commitment to making urgent economic reforms needed for it to qualify for another tranche of International Monetary Fund loans, the IMF said . The Washington-base... |
| 6/7/2018 - Tunisia’s annual inflation held steady in May at 7.7 percent year-on-year, official data showed . Inflation accelerated from 6.9 percent in January to 7.7 percent in April, its highest level ... |
| 6/13/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank raised its key interest rate from 5.75 percent to 6.75 percent, the second hike in three month, to tackle inflation that reached the highest level since 1990. |
| 7/7/2018 - The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved the payment of a $250 million tranche, the fourth from Tunisia’s loan programme tied to economic reforms aimed at keeping its deficit under control, ... |
| 7/9/2018 - Tunisia’s trade deficit rose 8.8 percent year-on-year in the first six months this year to 8.16 billion Tunisian dinars ($3.13 billion), the state statistics office said . Exports from Januar... |
| 7/15/2018 - Tunisia’s president called on Sunday for Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to step down or seek a confidence quote if the country’s political and economic crisis continues, withdrawing his support for the... |
| 8/29/2018 - Tunisia expects economic growth to accelerate to 3.5 percent next year from the 2.9 percent expected in 2018, driven by a recovery in the tourism industry and growth in the agricultural sector, a mini... |
| 9/14/2018 - Tunisia will impose no new taxes on individuals and firms under the 2019 budget but will continue to reform a costly subsidies system, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said . The country has str... |
| 9/28/2018 - The International Monetary Fund approved the payment of a $245 million loan tranche to Tunisia, the fifth under its loan programme with the North African country. The loan programme is tied ... |
| 12/11/2018 - Tunisia’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 6.75 percent . Inflation stayed at 7.4 percent in November, its third month in a row at that figure, official data showed. It fe... |
