Bank of Korea Opens Door to Back-to-back Tightening

Dow Jones07-16 12:48

0448 GMT - Bank of Korea Gov. Shin Hyun-song's briefing following the central bank's move to raise its benchmark rate by 25 bps contained an "indirect signal" that the central bank remains open to a back-to-back tightening in August, Societe Generale strategist Kiyong Seong writes in a note. While Gov. Shin's briefing is viewed as "genuinely hawkish," the market appears to have been positioned for an even more hawkish outcome--either a 50bp move or substantially stronger hawkish rhetoric, the strategist writes. "We suspect that receivers may be quicker than usual to take profits ahead of the upcoming key data releases, given the heightened sensitivity of the policy outlook to incoming growth and inflation data," Seong says. (jihye.lee@wsj.com)

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