Our forecasts that the Bank of England would not be able to use negative interest until the middle of the year and wouldn’t be willing to speed up the pace of its quantitative easing (QE) proved to be spot on today. And the more optimistic feel of the Monetary Policy Committee’s latest economic forecasts lends some support to our view that the MPC won’t actually cut rates below zero this year or next.
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