...for 2008, CNB Governor Zdenek Tuma said on Tuesday.
After meeting trade union leaders for annual talks on the economic outlook, Tuma told a news conference he and his fellow policymakers had discouraged union leaders from indexing wages to headline inflation which is seen rising in early 2008.
The CNB raised interest rates to a five-year high of 3.25 percent in August, but a strong crown and uncertainty fed by the global credit crunch have led policymakers to signal a diminishing scope for more rate hikes.
[PRAGUE/Reuters/Finance.cz]