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SNB to bide its time and delay negative rates to 2026

Inflation undershot the SNB’s forecast and fell to zero in November, but we think officials are unlikely to respond by lowering the policy rate next week. By June next year, however, we think that inflation will have been stuck close to zero for many months and so the Bank will cut rates by 25bp to -0.25%.

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