Interest rates may stay higher for longer says Bank of England May 12, 2025 Several members on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee have warned that sticky inflation could stall further interest rate cuts this year in marked contrast to current analyst expectations. Bank policymakers voted to lower interest rates to 4.25 per cent last week. Two MPC members voted for a 50 basis point cut, and another couple [...]
Interest rate cut hopes fade after Bank of England decision May 8, 2025 City investors have lowered expectations of multiple interest rate cuts later in the year after the Bank of England decided to reduce rates to 4.25 per cent. Prior to the Bank’s decision on Thursday at 12.02 pm, markets priced in around three more cuts this year in predictions that would take interest rates to 3.5 [...]
Rate-setter calls on Bank of England to adopt ‘activist’ approach to rates March 6, 2025 The Bank of England should adopt a more activist approach to setting interest rates in order to deal with the “substantial volatility” affecting geopolitics and financial markets, a rate-setter has said. Catherine Mann, an external member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), argued that rate-setters should be more willing to vote for more radical [...]
Bank of England needs to ‘cut through the noise’, rate-setter says February 11, 2025 In a speech delivered in Leeds, Mann explained that the persistence of "embedded inflationary behaviours" had diminished due to growing weakness in the economy.
Monetary policy needs to be ‘more forceful’ as global economy becomes less stable November 14, 2024 "Over the next few years at least, volatility in macroeconomic variables likely will be elevated," Mann said at the Annual Conference of the Society of Professional Economists in London.
Bank of England’s Mann warns of ’embedded’ UK inflation risk after decision to hold September 20, 2024 "Structural behaviours in UK labour and product markets appear to have systematically embedded inflation," she said in a speech in Lithuania.