Hungary central bank's Virag: inflation to retreat slowly in coming months

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BUDAPEST, March 28 (Reuters) - Inflation in Hungary will ease slowly in the coming months before declining substantially in the second half of the year, central bank Deputy Governor Barnabas Virag said on Tuesday after the bank kept its base interest rate unchanged at 13%. Virag said after the decision that disciplined monetary and fiscal policy was needed to tackle inflation, which has soared to above 25%. He added the bank needed to maintain its 18% one-day deposit rate.
(Reporting by Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than, writing by Jason Hovet)

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