Increasingly-hawkish policymaker Andrzej Wojtyna was also quoted as saying Thursday that a single rate hike was necessary to halt the weakness of the Polish zloty.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
The AP news agency quoted a local doctor as saying he was outraged when a tax collector tried to charge him a higher rate than that paid by local business owners.