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BoE won't increase the rates.

 

Andrew Bailey has sig­nalled fin­an­cial mar­kets are wrong to assume the Bank of Eng­land will raise interest rates fur­ther, in an effort to con­vince investors that Bri­tain’s eco­nomic out­look dif­fers from those of the US and euro­zone. The BoE gov­ernor said yes­ter­day that the bank no longer pre­sumed it would increase rates bey­ond the cur­rent 4 per cent — even though mar­ket expect­a­tions of rises have intens­i­fied over the past month in tan­dem with changes in other advanced eco­nom­ies. Mar­kets anti­cip­ate rates will hit 4.75 per cent by the end of the year, up from an expect­a­tion of a peak of 4.25 per cent at the start of Feb­ru­ary. By yes­ter­day after­noon, the yield on 10-year gilts was 3.84 per cent, up from 3.32 per cent a month ago. Mar­ket expect­a­tions of fur­ther interest rate rises have moved closely in line with US and European infla­tion data, which have been worse than expec­ted over the past month. While those num­bers have sparked expect­a­tions that the US Fed­eral Reserve and European Cent­ral Bank will need to raise rates fur­ther than thought, UK infla­tion fig­ures have not out­stripped fore­casts. By con­trast with recent indic­at­ors for the US and euro­zone, Bailey said the UK eco­nomy was «evolving much as we expec­ted it to». Prop­erty prices fell 1.1 per cent in Feb­ru­ary com­pared with the same month last year, the biggest drop since Novem­ber 2012, mort­gage pro­vider Nation­wide said yes­ter­day. The grow­ing rate rise expect­a­tions have also been unwel­come news for Jeremy Hunt as he pre­pares for his first Budget on March 15. Mar­ket expect­a­tions of rates have a dir­ect impact on five-year fore­casts for the cost of ser­vi­cing gov­ern­ment debt from the Office for Budget Respons­ib­il­ity, the fiscal watch­dog. The BoE still expects infla­tion to fall rap­idly this year, par­tic­u­larly in April when energy bills are fore­cast to rise by less than at the same period last year.

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