Four years of 0.5% rates - at least another two to go

Tomorrow’s MPC meeting marks the fourth anniversary of official interest rates reaching their record low of just 0.5% in March 2009. We doubt that they will rise before the second half of 2015 at the earliest and think that some sort of rate cut is more likely than a hike within the next two years.

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