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The 'Temporary' Financial Repression In The CEE Market

EMERGING MARKETS
  • As we mentioned last week, the CEE region currently offers the lowest real yields among the EM world, with Poland being at the bottom of the league with a current 10Y real yield of -1.6% (CPI inflation adjusted, see table below).
  • Interestingly, as CEE policymakers expect the spike in inflation to be only temporary (mainly driven by fuel prices and 'regulatory factors'), CBs will keep try to keep financial conditions as loose as possible to stimulate growth expectations, which have been skewed to the downside due to the worsening Covid situations in Q1.
  • Low ST interest rates combined with QE purchases should limit the upside move on the long end of the curve and therefore lead to even lower LT real yields in the coming months.
  • Inflation in Hungary is expected to temporary spike above the NBH upper tolerance band and reach nearly 5% in Q2 before starting to ease.
  • NBP governor Glapinski also mentioned on Friday that inflation is expected to rise above the 3.5% upper tolerance band in the short term.


Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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