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Hungary’s central bank could still cut interest rates further

Having lowered interest rates by a little more than the market expected today, the Hungarian central bank’s post-meeting communiqué (unusually) didn’t give much away about the outlook for monetary policy. We suspect that, barring a further sell-off in the forint, there may be scope for one more rate cut in March. But the bigger picture is that the scale of any further easing will be extremely small.

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