The bank widened the interest rate corridor to plus/minus 2 percentage points from plus/minus 1 percentage points.

The rate corridor was kept at plus or minus 1.0 percentage points. The rate on access operations to provide liquidity was set at 10.25 percent, and the rate on access operations to withdraw liquidity at 8.25 percent.

Ukraine’s Antonov State Enterprise, formerly known as the Antonov Design Bureau, was founded in the late 1940s.

The IMF expects Uzbekistan’s economy to grow by 5 percent in 2021, but says that the recovery could be delayed by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections.

Lenders reported a fall in total net profit of 1.5 percent year-on-year of 366.3 million manats ($215.5 million) in the period from January to June 2021, but an increase from the 273.2 million manats reported a month earlier.