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PRAGUE, May 10 (Reuters) - Central European stock markets
charged ahead on Monday, with Warsaw"s blue-chip index touching
its highest since February 2020, while currencies largely gave
back recent gains.
Stocks followed global equity markets higher on prospects
that interest rates in the United States will remain low and the
economic recovery on track.
Locally, Prague shares were also propelled by a 1% rise in
utility CEZ before it reports quarterly results on
Tuesday. CEZ shares have been lifted to multi-year highs by
expectations of a hefty dividend after it sold some foreign
assets.
Prague"s PX index added 0.6% overall, Budapest
was 0.5% higher and Warsaw led gains with a 1.5% rise.
On currency markets, the Hungarian forint cooled
0.15% to trade at 358.12 to the euro. The Czech crown
was steady at 25.637 per euro.
Both were waiting on inflation data due on Tuesday, with an
inflation spike in Hungary recently drawing some attention.
The Hungarian central bank expects headline inflation to
approach 5% in the second quarter, driven by fuel prices and tax
changes, overshooting its 2%-4% target range. It has called the
move temporary but has pledged to prevent any sustained rise.
Czech rate setters, on the other hand, have flagged that
they could become the first in the region to begin tightening
policy sooner rather than later.
Market bets on a rate hike as soon as August have jumped
since last Thursday"s Czech policy meeting after which Governor
Jiri Rusnok said a rate rise this year was a certainty.
Rates markets were quieter on Monday while bond
yields were mixed.
Elsewhere, the Polish zloty slipped 0.45%, giving
up gains from last Friday after a decision from the country"s
Supreme Court that set the stage for a hearing this week to
determine how courts treat thousands of borrowers who took out
Swiss franc loans more than a decade ago.
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