Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 27 April 2020
At the monetary policy meeting on 27 April 2020, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided on continued purchases of government and mortgage bonds up to the end of September 2020 and to leave the repo rate unchanged at zero percent.The board members supported the assessments and analyses presented in the draft Monetary Policy Report. The corona pandemic has hit the world hard and restrictions to curb the spread of infection have substantially reduced activity in the global economy. Developments going forward are extremely uncertain and depend largely on the spread of the virus and the