The increase in Sweden’s measure of core inflation to 8.0% was a touch below expectations but it still marks a new 31-year high. With CPIF inflation having risen to well above the Riksbank’s recent forecast, we still think policymakers are most likely to raise the policy rate by 50bp in February, to 3.0%.
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