The experts agree that the policy rate will be raised by another 0.25 or 0.5 percent in two weeks. However, Handelsbanken’s chief strategist Claes Måhlén believes that the interest rate will remain unchanged after that until mid-2024.
Even if prices continue to rise, the speed with which they rise decreases.
SEB’s Robert Bergqvist even believes that inflation may be back at the Riksbank’s target of two percent in a year.
But it will probably take a while before anything is seen on the key interest rate.
– A tussilago makes no spring. There may be setbacks and the Riksbank probably thinks so. So an increase of +.25 or 0.5 percent is probably in the cards now on April 26, says SVT’s economic commentator Alexander Norén.