The next expansion in QE may not be the last

While the Monetary Policy Committee left its interest rate and quantitative easing policies unchanged this morning, it implied that an expansion of QE is imminent. This leaves our existing call that the MPC would expand QE by around £100bn at the meeting in June looking pretty good. If anything, over the coming months and years the MPC will probably end up doing much more than that.

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