feb 1 reuters  the central bank of the united arab emirates said on wednesday it was increasing its base rate by 25 basis points to 465 effective on thursday moving in parallel with the us federal reserves hike the bank said in a statement it would maintain the rate on borrowing shortterm liquidity from the cbuae through all standing credit facilities at 50 basis points above the base rate reporting by alaa swilam and ahmed tolba in cairo writing by yousef saba in dubai