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The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at its next June decision due to high wage growth and energy price ...
Central banks sense that their once-bloated balance sheets are closing in on the fabled 'steady state', meaning they can ...
The Bank of England is set to keep rates on hold next week, sticking with its gradual approach to cuts after a reduction in May, but investors will look for hints on whether a slowing economy and ...
Quantitative tightening’ is driving up borrowing costs and piling pressure on public finances, according to fund managers ...
Exports from China of small packages to the UK were up 66 per cent in May from a year earlier. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the upcoming annual review of the BoE's balance sheet rundown - or 'quantitative ...
Mortgage brokers do not believe that interest rates are falling “too fast”, a poll conducted by Landbay has revealed. In the poll, the buy-to-let lender asked mortgage intermediaries: “Do ...
A second worry we can also probably put to bed is that long bond yields are rising as a result of contagion from the US. The correlations between bond yields in different countries is not that ...
Catherine Mann, a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates, has also warned that policymakers must pay closer attention to the impact of QT on financial ...
Landbay sales and distribution director Rob Stanton says: “Huw Pill has been a consistent voice of caution while the central bank has been making rate reductions. He’s not alone: both he and Catherine ...
Catherine Mann also voted to pause, after advocating a 50bps rate cut in February. I’ve stopped trying to characterise her as a dove or a hawk, as she self-identifies as an ‘activist’ policy ...
But it looks like that could change: in the past week we’ve seen sell-side predictions of active envelopes at £50.9bn, £30.9bn, £10.9bn and £0bn, and Catherine Mann is starting to make noises.