Enough to embellish the savings of some 54.9 million French people.
The livret A, the most popular placement in France, will experience an improvement at the start of the year.
The interest rate "will increase in January", announces Bruno Le Maire this Monday morning at the microphone of BFMTV.
"I make the commitment this morning", he assured.
Without however specifying at what height.
According to estimates that Le Parisien revealed to you at the end of November, the interest rate of the livret A could be raised to around 0.7 or 0.8%.
It has not left its floor rate, 0.5%, since February 2020.
Bruno Le Maire (@BrunoLeMaire): "The rate of the livret A will increase in January for millions of French people who have an account" pic.twitter.com/zCObko1OqL
- BFM Business (@bfmbusiness) December 13, 2021
The formula for its calculation aims to obtain the arithmetic mean between the inflation recorded over the last semester and the average of short-term rates in euros, ie the borrowing rate of banks in the euro zone.
So, with inflation of 2% over the year, according to forecasts, and an interbank rate of around -0.5%, the calculation would result in an interest rate of 0.75%.