Romania: growing risk that policy will be kept too loose

A rise in interbank rates and weaker net wage growth appear to lie behind the Romanian MPC’s surprise decision to keep its policy interest rate on hold today. We still think that the tightening cycle will be resumed in May, but today’s decision raises the risk that policy is keep too loose for too long.

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