Today’s decision by the Central Bank of Russia to cut its benchmark one-week repo rate by 100bps appears to have been driven by the stabilisation of the ruble over the past month. Barring a renewed fall in the oil price, and hence the ruble, a few more interest rate cuts seem likely. Nonetheless, the size of rate cuts will be relatively modest, and the bigger picture is that monetary conditions will stay tight for some time yet.
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