February 23 (SeeNews) - Serbia's financial and corporate sectors expect inflation to remain within the 1.5%-4.5% target band in the short and medium term, the country's central bank, NBS, said on Friday.
One-year-ahead inflation expectations of the corporate and financial sectors stood at 3.0%, NBS said in its monthly Inflation Expectations Survey for January.
In January, one-year ahead inflation expectations of households came in at 5.0%, while the short- and medium-term forecasts of trade unions was 3.5%.
Looking two years ahead, households expect 6.0% inflation, NBS said.
Serbia's annual consumer price inflation consumer price inflation slowed to 1.9% in January from 3.0% in December, according to data from the national statistical office. On a monthly comparison basis, Serbia's consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.3% in January after remaining unchanged in December.