The Bank of England may not be ready to use negative interest rates until H2 2021. And by then, COVID-19 restrictions might be easing and the economy could be growing rapidly. In any case, if the Bank does loosen policy further, we suspect it will use more Quantitative Easing rather than negative interest rates.
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