Bratislava, May 27 - The Bank Board of the National Bank of Slovakia at its 21th Meeting held on 27 May 2008 decided on maintaining the current interest rates as follows:

a. overnight sterilisation rate at 2.25 %;

b. overnight refinancing rate at 5.75%;

c. two-week repo tender limit rate at 4.25 %.

[National Bank of Slovakia has kept key interest rates unchanged for more than a year now, with the last changes made in April 2007.]

(NBS)