Banking analysts expect to preserve the Central Bank’s rate at the same level / news of the economy of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.ru

VTB expects to preserve the Central Bank rate at a meeting on June 6 at the level of 21 %.

But the signal of the future monetary policy can be softened, said the first deputy chairman of VTB Dmitry Pyanov.

“I think that there will be a concern that a decrease in a key rate with so many potentially dedicated factors is too risky. Therefore, from my point of view, the regulator signal will be softened. I formulated how it can sound. For example: “We will evaluate the need to reduce the key rate in the second half of 2025,” the top manager said.

According to him, positive factors to soften monetary policy are slowing inflation, strengthening the ruble, cooling economic growth. At the same time, inflationary expectations are not reduced, in the second half of the year, the indexation of tariffs is expected, the labor market remains tense.

According to the VTB representative, the bank remains conservative in forecasts and has so far predicts the possibility of reducing the key rate at the last Central Bank meeting this year.