Economics
Huge Russian Rate Hike Doesn’t Prompt Kazakhstan to Follow Along
- Kazakh policy makers kept key rate at 13.5% despite tenge drop
- Central Asian economy vulnerable after Russia invaded Ukraine
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Kazakhstan didn’t follow Russia’s aggressive interest-rate hike and left borrowing costs unchanged on Wednesday, even after President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine sent the tenge to the world’s worst slump after the ruble.