{"id":82654,"date":"2026-05-27T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/sri-lanka-policy-tightening-supports-rupee-standard-chartered\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:41:20","slug":"sri-lanka-policy-tightening-supports-rupee-standard-chartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/sri-lanka-policy-tightening-supports-rupee-standard-chartered\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Policy tightening supports Rupee \u2013 Standard Chartered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-content-section\">\n<p>Standard Chartered economists Saurav Anand and Siddharth Sadasivam note that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka raised policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/rates\" data-fxs-autoanchor>rates<\/a> by 100bps to curb inflation, cool credit-driven imports and support the LKR. They expect further hikes in 2026, with inflation staying above target and risks from high Oil prices, external pressures and weather-related energy costs.<\/p>\n<h2>CBSL tightening path and inflation risks<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) raised policy rates by 100bps on 26 May to curb rising inflation, contain still-strong domestic demand (leading to a rise in credit-driven imports) and support the LKR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CBSL statement clearly acknowledged that headline CPI inflation is likely to remain above its 5% target in the period ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to see the CBSL raising policy rates by a further 50bps in Q3-2026, with risk of another 50bps hike in Q4 if higher crude oil prices add to inflationary pressures and increase depreciation pressure on the LKR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We therefore revise our end-2026 policy rate forecast to 9.25% (from 8.75% previously).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acknowledge the risk of the CBSL keeping policy rates unchanged in 2026 in case of a quick resolution to the Middle East conflict and if crude oil prices stabilise below USD 90\/bbl in Q3-2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Chartered economists Saurav Anand and Siddharth Sadasivam note that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka raised policy rates by [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}