Iceland’s Sedlabanki holds rates but will hike later this year

Iceland’s central bank left its main interest rates on hold today as it waits to judge the outcome of the ongoing wage negotiations. But with labour market tensions growing and the Sedlabanki raising its 2015 GDP forecasts, we think that the next move in interest rates will be up.

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