The relatively weak 0.4% q/q GDP growth recorded in both Hungary and Czechia in Q2 suggests that both economies weren’t as resilient to the effects of the energy shock as we had anticipated. This should give Hungary’s central bank the green light to keep cutting interest rates, and may temper some of the hawkishness on the Czech MPC.
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