PRAGUE, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Czech central bank's (CNB) board gave no serious consideration to the option of raising interest rates on Thursday, Governor Zdenek Tuma said.
He told a news conference the board did not pay any extra attention to expectations that the Czech interest rate spread below the key euro zone rate would widen to 100 basis points in December.
The bank left its key rate at 2.50 percent as expected earlier on Thursday and said risks to its October quarterly inflation forecast were on the downside. ((Reporting by Marek Petrus, writing by Jan Lopatka, editing by Mike Peacock; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters Messaging: jan.lopatka.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420-224 190 474))
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