September 18 (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 Tuesday.
One-year-ahead inflation expectations of the finance sector stood at 2.9% and of the corporate sector amounted to 2.5%, NBS said on in its monthly inflation Expectations Survey for August.
In August, one-year ahead inflation expectations of households came in at 6.0%, while the short-term forecast of trade unions was 3.5%.
Looking two years ahead, the finance and corporate sectors expect 3.0% and 2.6% inflation, respectively, NBS said.
Serbia's average annual consumer price inflation quickened to 2.6% in August from 2.4% in July, according to the latest official data available.
On a monthly comparison basis, Serbia'sconsumerprice index (CPI) rose by 0.3% in August, after decreasing by 0.3% in July.