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Stubborn services inflation could slow rate cuts further

The persistent strength in core services inflation in some EMs outside Asia raises the chances that central banks cut interest rates by less than the consensus expects this year, not least because it comes amid a strengthening of the US dollar and concerns of upward shocks to oil prices. That said, we do not expect any other central banks to follow Bank Indonesia in resuming interest rate hikes in the coming months.

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