Hungarian monetary stance seen unchanged today – TDS
FXStreet (Edinburgh) – Strategist at TD Securities Prashant Newnaha expects the Hungarian central bank to keep the benchmark rates unchanged at today’s meeting.
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“In line with unanimous consensus we expect the NBH to keep its key policy rate on hold after the July MPC meeting cut its policy rate to 1.35%”.
“At that meeting, they announced that rates would be held at this level for some considerable time”.
“Although August CPI inflation was weaker than expected, mainly as a result of falling commodity prices, we do not think that this sway the NBH”.
“From Sep 23 the policy rate will become the 3-month deposit rather than the current two-week deposit. This change was announced in June to further encourage local banks to buy government debt. This extension of maturity represents a small implicit easing in policy”.
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