Swedish central bank tightens policy, says it may need to do more

 



Sweden's central bank raised its key policy rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.00%, as expected, on Thursday and said it might need to do more to bring inflation back to its 2% target.

The Riksbank has now increased the policy rate at eight consecutive meetings to fight a surge in inflation that peaked at more than 10% in December last year.

Headline inflation stood at 4.7% in August, still well above the 2% target.

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