Kenyan interest rates held, hike likely later this year

Kenya’s Monetary Policy Committee kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 8.50% today, but the Committee’s increasingly hawkish tone leads us to believe that rate hikes will come in late 2015 rather than early 2016. We’ve pencilled in 100bps of hikes in September. 

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