Korea’s central bank has more work to do

The Bank of Korea (BoK) lifted its policy rate by 25bp to 3.0% today, as was universally anticipated. Policymakers are rightly focused on tackling local price pressures, which are not solely due to the pick-up in global commodity prices. We expect the policy rate to be hiked again in April or May.

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