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Swedish Riksbank still fighting deflationary threat

Sweden’s central bank today left its main policy rate on hold at 0.25% and reiterated that interest rates would not start to rise until late 2015 as it continues its fight to stave off deflation. But we think that the date of the first rate hike will still need to be pushed back further.

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