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Sweden Consumer Prices (Aug.)

The continued increase in inflation in August, with the core rate hitting its highest level since December 1991, will keep the Riksbank in hawkish mode. We had expected the Bank to raise its repo rate by a further 50bp next week, but the risks are skewed towards an even bigger increase.

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