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Inflation concerns, economy off to a bad start in Q3

The latest batch of labour market data will have done little to ease the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) concerns that the coming rise in inflation could be sustained in 2022. But we are not convinced that a majority of MPC members will vote for an interest rate hike in mid-2022, as some forecasters expect, and instead think that it will happen in mid-2023.

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