The relatively dovish stance taken by the Polish MPC at today’s post-meeting press conference reinforces our view that monetary tightening is a long way off. We only expect interest rate hikes to come in 2018. While the Romanian MPC also struck a fairly dovish tone in its communiqué released earlier today, we think inflation risks are greater than in Poland and expect the first rate hike in the second half of this year.
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