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Hungary: shift towards tightening will be limited

Hungary’s central bank will probably use Tuesday’s meeting to flag a shift towards tightening and we expect a small hike in the overnight deposit rate in March. But this is likely to be a symbolic gesture more than anything else. Monetary policy will stay extremely loose and we think that interbank rates will be lower than their current level by year-end.

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