The eagerly anticipated BoE Inflation Report and press conference did not disappoint. As expected the BoE announced an official policy of forward interest rate guidance. “The MPC intends not to raise Bank Rate from its current level of 0.5% at least until the LFS headline measure of the unemployment rate has fallen to a threshold of 7.0%, subject to the conditions below”. Currently the unemployment rate is 7.8%.
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