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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 86784, member: 27"] Single-digit inflation is back on the scoreboard, and a country burned by 2008 is squinting hard to see if this calm is real or just a breather. Hyperinflation scars still linger [LIST] [*]Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe logged 231 million percent in July 2008. [*]Alternative estimates later pegged November 2008 at 79.6 billion percent monthly. [*]Prices once shifted between sunrise and sunset. [*]Savings vaporized before payday even arrived. [/LIST] Current inflation snapshot [LIST] [*]Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe reported 15 percent ZiG inflation by December 2025. [*]Treasury put January 2026 ZiG inflation near 4.1 percent. [*]US dollar inflation hovered around 1 percent. [*]Month-on-month increases averaged 0.4 percent in 2025. [/LIST] Policy discipline and zero borrowing [LIST] [*]RBZ kept the policy rate at 35 percent. [*]Authorities confirmed zero central bank lending to the government. [*]ZiG deposits reached ZiG31.9 billion by year's end. [*]Officials aim for positive real interest rates. [/LIST] Exchange rate convergence [LIST] [*]Interbank rate averaged ZiG26 per US dollar in 2025. [*]Parallel premium shrank to about 20 percent. [*]Black market rate eased toward ZiG31 per dollar. [*]Ms. Miriam Dube noticed steadier pricing at Mbare Musika. [/LIST] Reserves and credibility test [LIST] [*]Foreign currency reserves climbed to US$1.2 billion. [*]Receipts rose to US$16.2 billion in 2025. [*]Reserve cover equals about 1.5 months of imports. [*]Trust Chikohora urged sticking to fiscal basics. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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