Weaker SEK is on the cards? – Nordea Markets
|According to analysts at Nordea Markets, despite an inflation disappointment in Sweden in the past week, the SEK has fared well.
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“Usually, when CPIF inflation disappoints by 0.2pp on the month it causes or coincides with a ~4% weakening of the trade-weighted SEK.”
“Moreover, the Swedish economic surprise index is firmly in negative territory. This usually indicates that a weaker SEK is on the cards.”
“Sell-on-rallies does however seem to be the name of the game for the EUR/SEK though. Why? Maybe market participants have concluded that the worse the outlook, the more likely a December hike becomes as it’s now or never!”
“Aside from weaker inflation, weaker macro, downside risks to domestic and global growth, the risks for greater volatility, risks (chances?) of a new election, ongoing QE-flows (while ECB is set to stop QE), an already well-priced December rate hike (16/25bp), we can add PPM flows as a SEK-negative in coming weeks.”
“More often than not EUR/SEK tends to glide higher ahead of the start of the PPM flows(which we have assumed to be December 10 for now).”
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