Fri, Mar 12 2010, 15:12 GMT
by Lars Christensen
Danske Bank A/S | View company's profile
Some interesting Polish numbers dominate next week’s calendar. On Monday we will receive data on Polish inflation in February. It is both our and consensus expectation that Polish inflation has dropped significantly in February – we expect it to come out at 3.2% y/y in February vs 3.6% y/y in January. Polish industrial production data is being released on Wednesday. We expect industrial production growth to have picked up a bit in February to 9.0% y/y vs to 8.5% y/y in January.
On Wednesday, the Minutes from the Hungarian central bank (MNB) meeting in February will be published. This could prove to be an interesting read following the 25bp cut of the key policy rate by the MNB in February. The Turkish central bank (TCMB) meets on Thursday. We expect that the TCMB will leave the key policy rate unchanged at 6.50%.
With somewhat limited newsflow recently, the FX market might turn its eyes on a couple of interesting economic releases in Poland in the coming week. A couple of interesting Polish numbers such as industrial production, wages and inflation are all being released. We expect all these readings to show positive signs for the Polish macro economy which is likely to have a positive impact on the Zloty.
Last week we recommended buying PLN/TRY based on our EMEA FX Scorecard. The trade has been fairly stable over the course of the week. The PLN continues to be the highest scoring currency and the TRY the lowest scoring currency of the five currencies covered by the Scorecard. We therefore keep our PLN/TRY trade open going into next week.
Published on Fri, Mar 12 2010, 15:14 GMT
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