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Russia May Push Back Rate Cuts

Expectations have shifted for cut in benchmark rate, as Russia works to bring inflation down to 4 percent.

By Scott Rose, Bloomberg | Updated on December 13, 2013

Economists pushed back forecasts for a cut in Russia’s benchmark rate today after the central bank said that inflation would slow to next year’s target of 5 percent only in the second half.

Monetary-policy makers held the one-week auction rate, the benchmark introduced in September, at 5.5 percent at their meeting today, the Moscow-based central bank said today in a statement on its website. That matched the forecasts of all 23 economists in a Bloomberg survey.

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