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BoK pauses, but rates still heading towards zero

The Bank of Korea left the benchmark rate on hold at a historic low of 2% today. But with the economy so weak, we think the central bank will resume cutting soon. We expect that rates will fall close to zero by mid-2009 after which the emphasis would switch to quantitative easing.

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