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Split vote unlikely just yet

The acceleration of the jobs market recovery and more hawkish comments from the Governor over the last month suggest that an interest rate rise before the end of the year cannot be ruled out. But provided inflation continues to ease, we think the Monetary Policy Committee is most likely to wait until early 2015 to begin to increase interest rates and then to raise them more slowly than the markets or consensus currently expects.

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