The further rise in Russia’s headline inflation rate last month, to 5.8% y/y, is likely to prompt the central bank to follow up March’s interest rate hike with further tightening. We have pencilled in two more 25bp hikes to the benchmark repo rate for this month and June, taking it to 5.00%.
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