Koruna Weakens as Impact of Poland Rate-Cut Shock Spreads

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Market turmoil triggered by Poland’s surprisingly big interest-rate cut is spilling over to its emerging European peers, with bets on Czech monetary easing increasing and the koruna weakening.

The Czech currency lost almost 1% versus the euro since the Poland’s a larger-than-expected 75 basis point rate cut on Wednesday, the worst performance among emerging currencies after the zloty and Chilean peso.

Dominik Rusinko, an economist at CSOB AS, the Czech unit of KBC Group NV, said international investors sometimes perceive central European nations as a “homogeneous” market, where a bigger cut in one nation can fuel similar moves in another.

 

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