POLAND: 2024, 2025 Inflation Forecasts Revised Higher by NBP

Highlights from the NBP's policy statement:

• There is a 50-percent probability that the annual price growth will be in the range of 3.1-4.3% in 2024 (against 2.8-4.3% in the March 2024 projection), 3.9-6.6% in 2025 (compared to 2.2-5.0%) and 1.3-4.1% in 2026 (compared to 1.5-4.3%). 
• Annual GDP growth will be with a 50-percent probability in the range of 2.3-3.7% in 2024 (against 2.7-4.3% in the March 2024 projection), 2.8-4.8% in 2025 (compared to 3.2-5.3%) and 1.9-4.3% in 2026 (compared to 2.0-4.5%).
• Incoming data indicate that despite the observed economic recovery, demand and cost pressures in the Polish economy remain relatively low […]  However, demand pressure in the domestic economy is stimulated by a marked wage growth.
• In the coming quarters, the consumer price growth is likely to increase and will be running above the NBP inflation target, which will be driven by the raised energy prices.
• The Council judges that the current level of the NBP interest rates is conducive to meeting the NBP inflation target in the medium term.
• Considering the Statistics Poland data, it can be estimated that inflation net of food and energy prices in June was lower than in the previous month.

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