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Bank of Spain doubles its inflation forecast for 2022

  Bloomberg The Bank of Spain more than doubled its forecast for inflation next year but still sees it easing sharply after that to well below the 2% goal for the euro zone. The central bank raised its outlook for annual price increases to 3.7% in 2022 and then slightly reduced the projection for the following year to 1.2%. Inflation ...

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Traders ramp up BOE bets to see key rate at 1.25% next year

  Bloomberg Traders are betting the Bank of England will look through risks from the omicron strain to hike its key interest rate above 1% next year for the first time since 2009. Money markets are now pricing 100 basis points of policy tightening from the UK central bank in Dec. 2022, according to sterling overnight index swaps. That would ...

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Hungary raises interest rates again to stem inflation

  Bloomberg The Hungarian central bank raised effective interest rates for the sixth time in as many weeks to stem accelerating inflation. A day after Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced a freeze on mortgage rates — which will act as a break on monetary tightening from the central bank — policy makers raised the one-week deposit rate by 20 basis ...

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