DUBAI- Kuwait's central bank cut its discount rate by 100 basis points to 1.5% from 2.5%, setting the rate at its lowest level in history, it said in a statement on Monday.

The bank lowered the rate as part of a series of precautionary measures "for the consequences of the outbreak of the coronavirus and its implications for the national economy and the local market", it said on Twitter.

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