BUDAPEST, March 30 (Reuters) - Hungary's central bank
sees tax-adjusted core inflation, its preferred measure of
underlying price trends, at 16.9% to 19.4% this year, easing to
4.4% to 6.4% by next year, the National Bank of Hungary said in
its quarterly inflation report.
The bank said on Thursday that inflation risks and the
economic growth outlook were balanced.
The NBH, which left all interest rates unchanged on Tuesday
and dashed market bets on rate easing, said Hungary's huge
current account deficit, driven by a surge in gas imports, would
narrow to 4.4% to 3.2% of economic output this year.
(Reporting by Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than)
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