Swedish interest rates heading towards zero

The recent run of dreadful news from Sweden has forced the Riksbank to rip up its previous interest rate forecasts and cut interest rates from 2.0% to 1.0%. We now expect the economic recession to prompt interest rates to fall to zero or thereabouts by the end of 2009.

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