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Inflation To Accelerate To 17.9% in July

CZECHIA
  • This morning, economic data to watch is CPI inflation (9am CET), expected to accelerate to 17.9% YoY in July, up from 17.2% the previous month.
  • The CNB will then comment on the inflation print at 1pm CET (as usual).
  • Yesterday, economic data showed that Czech central bank sold another 7.1bn USD of reserves in June to prevent CZK weakness.
  • We saw that the new board is more keen on intervening on FX market to ‘support’ the domestic currency than hiking rates as leading economic indicators have been pricing in a significant deterioration in the business activity in the coming months.
  • Czech FX reserves are now down nearly 28bn USD since their all-time high of 175.4bn USD reached in Q1 (prior the Ukraine war).

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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