LONDON, Nov 6 - The Bank of England might wait until the middle of next year before cutting interest rates from their current 15-year high, the BoE's Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Monday.
Pill said pricing in financial markets - that currently points to a first rate cut to Bank Rate in August 2024 -"doesn't seem totally unreasonable, at least to me." "It is at that point you might consider or reassess, if nothing new has happened, where we are going to have to be," Pill said during an online presentation organised by the BoE.Last week the BoE held its benchmark rate at a 15-year high of 5.25% and said it was not thinking about cutting it as it continued to bear down on inflation which stood at 6.7% in September, lower than a peak of 11.1% in October 2022 but still more than three times its 2% target.
Britain's economy is likely to flat-line over the next two years and grow by less than 1% in 2026, according to the BoE's latest forecasts. Many analysts think the economy is already entering a recession. Pill said slowing the economy to fight inflation was"not easy" and he said the Monetary Policy Committee was"very aware" of the impact of its decisions on people on lower incomes.
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