Talking Trends: economy adjusts to new environment
2 June 2022
News
The Russian economy’s performance in April—May proved better than expected. A strong slowdown was seen in negative trends, which were brought about by changes in external conditions, after a sharp worsening in March. Having said that, the economy is only entering a period of structural transformation.
Consumer prices in May were marked with significantly slower growth, which mainly comes as a result of several one-off disinflationary factors, primarily a stronger ruble. Moving forward, price trends will depend on many factors on both the supply and demand side. The monetary policy stance will help bring inflation back to the 4% target in 2024.
More details are presented in Talking Trends, a Bank of Russia bulletin.
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