Private non-financial companies are unlikely to have any difficulty coping with increases in interest costs ahead. First, the scale of the increase in Bank Rate is set to be fairly trivial by past standards. Second, firms’ profitability has recovered to robust levels. And third, changes in the composition of corporations’ balance sheets have reduced their immediate exposure to higher interest rates.
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