Kazakhstan’s inflation rose to 9.4% YoY in February, up from 8.9% in the previous month, the highest reading in more than a year. The Kazakh central bank will next meet on Friday 7 March. Further, the country plans to sell USD 700-800 mln of foreign currency from its wealth fund in March, as well as USD 500 mln from central bank reserves, to mirror tenge sales completed to purchase gold.