Presumably today’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged was again unanimous after deflation concerns prompted Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty to drop their call for a rate hike last month. An interest rate rise in the immediate future still looks very unlikely, but could well come back on the agenda later this year once the risk of a prolonged period of falling prices has diminished.
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