SNB Set to Avoid Negative Rate in Favor of ‘Lesser Evil’ for Now


“If they want to surprise markets, they will cut,” said Nadia Gharbi, a senior economist at Pictet in Geneva. “But my baseline is that they stay on hold with a dovish tilt. Negative inflation — at least for a short time — is for the SNB the lesser evil compared to negative rates.”



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