Rising wage growth won’t prevent policy loosening

Wage growth has strengthened in several advanced economies despite the global economic slowdown. But, outside the UK, we do not expect this to prevent monetary policy loosening. Strong productivity growth has stopped higher wages stoking inflation in the US. And while euro-zone productivity growth is weak, we expect wage growth there to stop rising now that employment intentions have faltered.

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