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By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST, July 14 (Reuters) - The Hungarian forint eased on Thursday, along with its regional peers, as the central bank left its one-week deposit rate unchanged and said it would hold foreign exchange swap tenders providing euro liquidity on a daily basis from Friday. The currency slid 0.17% on the day and was trading at 409.70 per euro. The bank has been holding fx swap tenders since last Friday and is also holding one later in the day. It said the aim of the tenders was to strengthen monetary transmission and support the achievement of price stability. "These help the forint more at the moment than rate hikes, it contributes to the relative calm in the market after last week's swings" an FX trader in Budapest said. "The huge current account deficit means that the market needs lots of euros, and they can get it from the central bank now and don't need to go to the market and thus push the euro's price even higher." The forint fell to a fresh record low of 416.90 versus the euro last Wednesday as it was pressured by a twin deficit, soaring inflation and a lack of agreement over European Union pandemic recovery funds. Hungarian long-term government bond yields ticked higher on Thursday as the forint eased, a fixed-income trader said. The yield on the benchmark 10-year bond was about 9.08%. "Yields fell yesterday after the government announced changes to the utility price cap as it will help balance the budget," the trader said. Hungary announced on Wednesday it would end a years-long cap on utility prices for higher-usage households starting from August, rolling back one of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's signature economic policies. The Hungarian Debt Management Agency (AKK) is offering to sell two series of bonds worth a total of 15 billion forints later in the day. Elsewhere, the Polish zloty slid 0.24% to 4.8340 per euro, adding to its losses from the previous session. "The slowdown in rate hikes by the MPC and quite dovish rhetoric of the NBP governor amid the prospect of a more aggressive Fed, is a deal that works against the domestic currency," Alior Bank wrote in a client note. The Czech crown eased 0.13% to 24.380 per euro, trading near strong levels hit in the previous session when it firmed to its strongest since February before Russia's invasion of Ukraine hammered central European currencies. CEE SNAPSH AT MARKETS OT 1035 CET CURREN CIES Latest Previo Daily Change us bid close change in 2022 EURCZK Czech 0 0 % EURHUF Hungary 00 00 EURPLN Polish EURRON Romania % EURHRK Croatia % % EURRSD Serbian 00 50 % % Note: calculated from 1800 daily CET change Latest Previo Daily Change us close change in 2022 .PX Prague 1226.1 1221.5 +0.38 6 500 % .BUX Budapes 39204. 38902. +0.78 -22.71 t 56 62 % % .WIG20 Warsaw <.WIG20 1644.1 1655.6 -0.70% -27.47 > 2 5 % .BETI Buchare 12064. 12021. +0.35 -7.63% st 54 99 % .SBITO Ljublja <.SBITO 1141.0 1140.7 +0.03 -9.11% P na P> 4 1 % .CRBEX Zagreb <.CRBEX 1940.8 1948.2 -0.38% -6.66% > 1 5 .BELEX Belgrad <.BELEX 863.70 863.94 -0.03% +5.23 15 e 15> % .SOFIX Sofia <.SOFIX 599.37 598.12 +0.21 -5.71% > % Yield Yield Spread Daily (bid) change vs change Bund in Czech spread Republi c CZ2YT= ps CZ5YT= ps CZ10YT 0 ps Poland PL2YT= ps PL5YT= ps PL10YT ps FORWARD 3x6 6x9 9x12 3M interb ank Czech Hungary Poland Note: are for ask FRA prices quotes **************************************** ********************** (Additional reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz in Warsaw; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)