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Rising Risk Aversion Drives HUF Lower

HUNGARY
  • EURHUF has been retracing higher in the past few days after finding support at 397.70 on Friday; the pair is now trading back above the 400 threshold.
  • Part of the forint weakness has been driven by the renewed USD strength, with the DXY index breaking above the 110 level this morning.
  • Important data to watch this week will be CPI inflation coming out on September 8, expected to accelerate to 15.9% in August.
  • This morning, economic data showed that retail sales came in below expectations at 4.3% in July (vs. 6.1% exp.), down from 4.5% the previous month.

Source: Bloomberg

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