According to analysts at TD Securities, today’s Norges Bank meeting should be a relatively straightforward placeholder meeting, especially given the Executive Board hiked rates just one month ago.
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“There is also no Monetary Policy Report at this meeting in which to explain a change in view, so justification for any view will be very brief. Macroeconomic trends support a continued trend of rate hikes through next year, but some underlying signs of increasing household uncertainty will restrain too quick a pace of hikes. However a sharp increase in inflation momentum in recent months, on top of accelerating GDP growth into 2018H2, should keep them on track for a 19Q1 hike.”