The multitude of comments by Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members over the past month have suggested that most are still very open to the idea of re-starting quantitative easing (QE). While the unexpectedly strong expansion of the economy in Q3 has probably made a launch of “QE2” at the upcoming meeting unlikely, we still expect further asset purchases to be announced before long.
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