Morgan Stanley sees improving growth for Hungary
Hungary’s short-term growth outlook is improving, largely thanks to a better-than-expected first-half outturn and a good harvest, reported London-based emerging markets economists at Morgan Stanley yesterday. In its autumn regional update “Back-to-School CEEMEA Outlook” released to investors in London, Morgan Stanley said it now sees Hungary’s economy growing by 0.5% this year and 1.5% in 2014, compared to its earlier forecasts of -0.5% and 1.3%, respectively.
However, “ongoing deleveraging and a challenging investment backdrop keep us cautious on (longer-term) growth prospects – we see Hungary continuing to underperform the rest of CEE in 2015 too (with) 1.3% growth (in that year) versus 2.5% in the Czech Republic and 3.2% in Poland.”
On the monetary policy front, the path for policy rates is clearly determined by the external backdrop, but the MNB still has an overall dovish bias. If the risk backdrop “can just about hold in, we believe that one should consider cuts of 15 bp to 20 bp the ‘new norm’, instead of 10 bp, our previous view.”
Even against the backdrop of volatile markets, it now seems likely that policy rates “may reach our target of 3.50% in the next couple of months already; our previous forecast was December.” And if risk stays reasonably constructive into the fourth quarter, a 3% terminal rate would not be out of the question either, Morgan Stanley’s London-based economists said in the report.
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