Having cut the one-week repo rate by 25bp earlier in the day, Russia’s central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, used her post-meeting press conference to stress that further monetary easing will be gradual. While this suggests that interest rate cuts are likely to be relatively small to begin with, we ultimately expect the policy rate to fall further than the markets are pricing in over 2017-18.
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