The dovish nature of the Russian central bank’s post-meeting statement has prompted us to bring forward the interest rate cut that we had pencilled in for Q3 to June. Further ahead, we forecast that the benchmark one-week repo rate will be lowered from 7.75% now to 6.75% by the end of 2020, which is more loosening than is priced into financial markets.
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