MPC won’t follow the Fed

The unanimous decision by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to leave interest rates on hold and the scale of its asset purchases unchanged, at the same time as the US Fed has resumed tightening policy, highlights the likely divergence in policy rates that is set to occur over the next few years.

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