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Hungary reluctantly hikes interest rates

Today’s very small interest rate hike in Hungary was the least that policymakers could do to show their commitment to the inflation target. But so long as key euro-zone export markets don’t weaken much further from here, today’s move is unlikely to be the one-off hike that Governor Matolcsy stated.

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