What will the MPC do next?

Despite his best efforts in last week’s speech in Nottingham, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney failed to bring the markets any closer to the MPC’s way of thinking regarding the interest rate outlook and hence drive market rates lower. The obvious next step for the MPC would be to restart the asset purchase programme, perhaps focused on short-dated gilts.

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