The release of the UK and US inflation figures last week provided a reminder of why the MPC is likely to raise interest rates later than the US Fed. Inflation rates in both economies will pick up fairly notably over the next few months as previous sharp falls in energy prices drop out of the annual comparison. But we expect this acceleration to be far sharper in the US than in the UK.
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