Europe · Business news · Economy · 24 Sept 2026
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Sweden's Riksbank announced on 24 September that its policy rate stays at 1.75%, applying from 30 September. It said GDP had grown faster than it had forecast and that the Swedish economy was approaching normal conditions. Measured inflation is low, but the bank sees it moving higher because of stronger activity, a weaker krona and higher energy prices. The next monetary policy meeting is on 3 November, with the decision published on 4 November.
Sweden's listed property sector carries heavy floating-rate and short-dated debt, so the policy rate is a direct financing cost for landlords such as those in the Stockholm real-estate index, and it sets mortgage pricing at the big Nordic banks — Swedbank, Handelsbanken, SEB and Nordea. An unchanged rate left those costs where they were. The krona matters separately for Sweden's export-heavy industrial groups, whose foreign earnings translate into more kronor when the currency is weak. The decision came the same day Norway tightened and two weeks after the ECB did.
Reported by Sveriges Riksbank — “Monetary policy decision September 2026” ↗ on 24 Sept 2026.
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