Swiss Franc Edges Toward Decade High as SNB Resists Intervention
- JPM, BNY see franc gaining on lack of central bank sales
- Currency rallies as SNB cuts rates more slowly than peers
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The Swiss franc may reach the strongest level in almost a decade as the nation’s central bank cuts interest rates more gradually than peers and refrains from intervening to weaken the currency, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of New York Mellon.
The banks’ strategists see the franc revisiting levels last seen in 2015 later this year — between 0.92 and 0.90 per euro — in the absence of a bolder rate cut from the Swiss National Bank or significant intervention. That compares with a median forecast of 0.95 from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.