Given the dismal state of the recovery, it was hardly a surprise that the Monetary Policy Committee kept interest rates on hold today. Most forecasters have reacted to the recent run of weaker news by simply pushing back their expected timing of the first interest rate rise. But we think that the recovery will remain too weak to sustain a rate rise for perhaps years yet.
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