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Oil prices continued to fall during trading on Thursday, hitting three-week lows on concerns that rising interest rates policies by leading central banks could limit global economic growth and fuel consumption going forward.

At the same time, the dollar has appreciated in the foreign exchange market, with its strengthening making oil more expensive for buyers in other currencies.

Markets and all EU member-states, especially those in Southern Europe which like Greece seek some form of mutualisation of debt have been  focusing like a laser beam on today's Eurogroup meeting and analysts expect joint action to help prop up the economies of member states - possibly including even so-called coronabonds.

In making the decision, the Executive Board was guided primarily by the expected movement of inflation and its underlying factors in the domestic and international environment, the central bank announced on its website.

In making the decision, the Executive Board was guided by the expected movement in inflation and its underlying factors, and the effects of past monetary policy easing, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) announced in a press release, adding:

In making this decision, the Executive Board primarily took into account the outlook for inflation and its underlying factors, as well as the effects of past monetary policy easing.

In making this decision, the Executive Board primarily took into account the outlook for inflation and its factors going forward, as well as the effects of past monetary policy easing, the central bank has announced.

In making that decision, the Executive Board was primarily guided by the inflation projection and inflation factors in the coming period, the NBS said in a press release.

In accordance with the NBS expectations, inflation in February was lowered to 1.5 percent year-on-year, primarily on account of the high base from the prices of products that underwent one-off hikes early in 2017.

BELGRADE - In spite of external risks resulting from developments in the eurozone and divergence of ECB and FED monetary policies, Serbia's financial system succeeded in remaining highly capitalised, highly solvent and stable in 2016, National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Thursday.

Serbia's financial system remained stable last year in spite of external risks, National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Thursday.

Serbia's financial system remained stable last year in spite of external risks, National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Thursday.