CBR for the first time since December of 2017, has lowered its key rate at once on 0, 5 percentage points-up to 6, 5%. The Central Bank in June, July and September lowered its key interest rate by 0 25 percentage points, because of this, it reached 7% per annum, which has been the minimum level since April 2014. Thus at the September meeting, the CBR has signaled that until not rest on its laurels and promises to consider easing some of the next three meetings. the vast majority polled Last news analysts believed that the regulator at a meeting on the last working day of the week will lower its key interest rate at 0, 5 percentage points - up to 6, 5% per annum. For the sake of reducing they listed factors such as slowing inflation, weak economic growth, as well as the presentation made by the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina last Friday about the fact that the regulator sees an opportunity not only to reduce the key rate, but do It more forcefully. The key rate is the minimum interest rate at which the Central Bank provides loans to commercial banks for a week and which is ready to accept deposits. Its size affects the rate of inflation. She was introduced on 13 September 2013 as a tool of monetary policy. It happened in the framework of transition to inflation targeting regime to increase transparency. <span style="color:darkgray