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UK rates still heading for 4%

Today’s decision by the Monetary Policy Committee to leave interest rates on hold was purely a matter of timing. With the Committee apparently agreed that a significant monetary loosening is required, we still expect interest rates to fall as far as 4% by the middle of next year or sooner.

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