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MPC losing appetite for more QE

Having only just extended its quantitative easing programme by £50bn at last month’s meeting, the MPC is very unlikely to do anything at this week’s meeting. What’s more, comments by Committee members over the last month suggest that they are cooling on the idea of doing more QE after that. But if growth disappoints their expectations, as we think, more QE is still likely.

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