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Romania CPI Inflation Accelerates To 13.8% in April

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  • Economic data showed earlier that inflation in Romania accelerated to 13.8% in April (vs. 11.1% expected), its highest level since January 2004, up from 10.2% the previous month.
  • We have seen that inflation has continued to surprise 'positively' in recent months in the CEE region, therefore participants have been revising their terminal rates higher as they remain confident that central banks will have to continue to fight against inflation, sometimes referred as the 'public enemy'.
  • Yesterday, we saw that Romania central bank (RCB) accelerated the pace of its tightening cycle and hiked its policy rate by 75bps to 3.75% at today's meeting (vs. 50bps exp.).
  • It is the sixth time that RCB is hiking rates, its policy rate is now up 250bps since its low reached in 2021.

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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