TUNIS- Morocco’s central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.25 percent, the bank said on Tuesday.

Bank al-Maghrib said inflation was expected to reach 1.8 percent on average in 2018 and to fall to 1.5 percent in 2019.

(Reporting by Tarek Amara Editing by Catherine Evans) ((tarek.amara@thomsonreuters.com;))