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Where are Icelandic policy rates heading?

Forecasters have been wrong-footed this year by the Central Bank of Iceland’s (CBI) rate cuts. This appears to be because the CBI has started to put more emphasis on a different inflation measure, and the cuts may also have been motivated by better-anchored inflation expectations and a slowdown in the economy’s potential growth. Nevertheless, we think that the rate-cutting cycle has reached its end.

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