MONETARY authorities could embark on a policy pivot by May at the earliest, given the language used in announcing last week's pause, a research consultancy said.

"Dovish voices on the [Monetary] Board are now clearly getting louder, in view of February's much less hawkish, if still-muddled, official statement," Pantheon Macroeconomics said in a report on Monday.

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