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Icelandic policy rate on hold next year

Following today’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, the Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) noted that looser fiscal policy is a short-term risk to the monetary policy outlook. While we expect the new Government to announce a small fiscal expansion in its forthcoming budget, we do not think that this will require immediate increases in interest rates. Rather, we forecast rates to be unchanged until 2019.

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