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Serbia Central Bank Sees CPI Accelerating Further in Jan/Feb

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  • National Bank of Serbia (NBS) sees inflation accelerating in January and February according to its quarterly report.
  • As a reminder, NBS decided to leave its benchmark rate steady at 1% as expected for a 14th straight month in last week's meeting.
  • We have seen that the NBS has not followed its CEE peers in recent months, where central banks have been raising rates aggressively to curb inflationary pressures.
  • Economic data showed last month that inflation accelerated to 7.9% YoY in December (as exp.), up from 7.5% the previous month, diverging significant from the NBS 4.5% upper tolerance band.
  • January inflation update will come out on February 22, with sell-side firms expecting CPI inflation to accelerate to 8% YoY.

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