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Sweden's deflation fight seen beyond central bank's control
Published Wed, May 20, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Stockholm
AS Sweden's Riksbank looks for new ways to fight deflation, a banker who once worked there says the likelihood it will succeed is looking increasingly remote.
"I find it hard to believe that they will achieve the goal of weakening the krona to boost inflation," Robert Bergqvist, chief economist at Scandinavia's biggest currency trading bank, SEB AB, and a former researcher at the Riksbank, said.
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