STOCKHOLM, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sweden's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged as expected at a record low of 0.25 percent on Wednesday and repeated its view that rates would remain at a record low level up to autumn next year.
Analysts in a Reuters poll on Dec. 10 were united in the belief that rates would be held unchanged at the meeting and had moved closer to the central bank's position on the path of rates ahead. [ID:nGEE5B70X8]
In the poll, the balance of analysts saw rates likely to rise in summer 2010 or later rather than, as previously expected, in the first half of the year.
For stories on Swedish interest rate decisions, click on [SERATE=ECI] (Editing by Mike Peacock)