Although the bank maintained its discount rate of 1.00 percent, it said it had also trimmed its interest on certificates of deposit by 0.05 percentage points to 0.95 percent.
"The interest rate reduction is a consequence of purchases of foreign exchange in the market," Nationalbanken said. "The money market rates in euro are very low and the spread to the equivalent Danish rates tends to strengthen the Danish krone."
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