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Facing positive macro data and rating confirmation - the Polish zloty firms below the EUR/PLN 4.40 level
The Polish zloty strengthened more than a percent against the euro as several supportive factors were in play yesterday.
First, the Polish currency continued to digest Friday's Fitch decision to keep country's rating assessment unchanged (while a part of the market expected a downgrade). Secondly, emerging markets almost fully shrugged off the Turkish coup. And last but not least – there were quite positive releases of the Polish hard macro data coming from the domestic labour market. While corporate wages grew strongly by 5.3% y/y in June (in real terms by more than 6%), the employment edged up by 3.1% y/y. This means that the growth of overall labour income has accelerated, which should support domestic private consumption and economic growth in Poland.
We will have a chance to assess the Polish macroeconomic situation even more thoroughly as industrial output and retails sales figures for June will be released later today. Should these releases confirm yesterday's positive surprises the case for better growth figures will be even stronger in Poland.
| Currencies | % chng | |
| EUR/CZK | 27.02 | 0.0 |
| EUR/HUF | 314.5 | -0.2 |
| EUR/PLN | 4.37 | -1.3 |
| EUR/USD | 1.11 | 0.3 |
| EUR/CHF | 1.09 | 0.3 |
| FRA 3x6 | % | bps chng |
| CZK | 0.25 | 0 |
| HUF | 0.79 | 1 |
| PLN | 1.67 | -4 |
| EUR | -0.34 | -2 |
| GB | % | bps chng |
| Czech Rep. 10Y | 0.41 | 0 |
| Hungary 10Y | 2.90 | 3 |
| Poland 10Y | 2.90 | -5 |
| Slovakia 10Y | 0.54 | -1 |
| CDS 5Y | % | bps chng |
| Czech Rep. | 41 | 0 |
| Hungary | 152 | 0 |
| Poland | 97 | 0 |
| Slovakia | 42 | 0 |
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