Weaker pound not a panacea for rebalancing

In its latest assessment of the UK economy, the IMF last week concluded that sterling was“moderately” overvalued and that its strength may be holding back the economy’s rebalancing.But we doubt that a renewed fall in sterling would be the panacea that many hope it would be.

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