MPC gives no hints of another hike

As was widely expected, December’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting was a bit of a non-event. However, if we are right in expecting the economy to perform more strongly than the MPC expects, that should allow interest rates to be raised several more times in 2018, and by more than markets expect.

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