Will Israel’s Inflation Slow or Continue to Rise?
Aug 13, 2008

Of late, the Bank of Israel has maintained that due to slowing global growth, they believe that inflation will be kept in check. Many market participants have accepted that view. Now along comes the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and challenges that assumption.

According to a report in Globes, ” ..But the EIU believes inflation in Israel will remain high, and says that “the Bank of Israel’s monetary policy will continue to be contractionary.”

While to many this may seem to be an argument of little importance, it actually may potentially determine the direction of both local interest rates and where the shekel trades in both the near and mid-term.