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Government Mulls Capping Profit Margins for Fuel Retailers

CZECHIA
  • The Czech Finance Ministry says it prepared a draft regulation that would allow imposing limits on profit margins at petrol stations and also cap prices for fuel distributors (BBG).
  • This week has been quiet in terms of news; next economic data to watch will be consumer confidence, coming out next week on August 24.
  • We saw that consumer confidence has been constantly testing new lows in the current environment, falling to -33 in July, its lowest level since 1999.
  • The chart shows that consumer confidence has strongly led industrial production by 6 months in the past two decades.
  • Today, FinMin is expected to present the quarterly update of its economic forecast (12pm CET).

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