Economy’s resilience to keep MPC on hold

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will take some comfort from recent data suggesting that the economy has maintained its momentum in Q4, while sterling’s recovery may have lessened the extent to which inflation will overshoot the MPC’s target. Nonetheless, with the outlook remaining extremely uncertain, we expect the MPC to keep rates on hold for a long while yet.

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