The National Bank of Romania published on 8th of November the Inflation Report, the report indicated that after having reached a 5-year high in 2018 Q2, the annual inflation rate saw, as expected, a halt in its upward trend, falling to 5 percent in September, i.e. 0.15 percentage points above the benchmark forecast in the August 2018 Inflation Report and 1.5 percentage points above the upper bound of the ±1 percentage point variation band of the 2.5 percent flat target.