The bounce-back in the UK CIPS/Markit report on services in January confirms that the drop in activity in December was partly a temporary result of the snow. Nonetheless, the underlying trend still appears to have slowed. And given the large amount of uncertainty about the fundamental health of the economy, we still doubt that the MPC will want to rush into a potentially premature tightening of policy.
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