Thailand: BoT seen on hold this week – UOB
|Economist at UOB Group Lee Sue Ann suggests the Bank of Thailand would leave the policy rate unchanged at its meeting on Wednesday.
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“While we keep to our call for BOT to leave its benchmark rate unchanged at 0.50% for the whole of 2021, the absence of uniformity amongst policy members (given 2 dissenters who voted for a rate cut) suggests that BOT a rate cut cannot be entirely ruled out, should macroeconomic fundamentals worsen into 2H21.”
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