The Bank of England kept interest rates at 4% while warning unemployment was rising and growth remained weak as Rachel Reeves prepared for her make-or-break budget.
With less than three weeks before expected tax measures and spending measures, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will keep borrowing costs unchanged for a second consecutive meeting.
Holding the casting vote in a well-balanced decision, Andrew Bailey, the governor of the bank, said he wanted “if the British pressures continue to have an effect.
“We are making interest rates at 4% now. We still think that the rates are on a gradual path, but we have to make sure that the stop is to return to our 2% before we are cut back to our 2% before we are cut again to our 2% before we are cut again,” he said.
Borrowing costs have been cut five times since the job comes into force in July 2024, increasing pressure on households and businesses, with the last reduction made in August. Meanwhile, inflation is running at 3.8% – almost twice the bank’s target.
In his 26 November statement on the fiscal is expected to increase taxes, may slow down the economy, along with the measures taken against the increased costs.
The decision to make expected economists expected, with financial markets that put the possibilities of reducing borrowing costs below 30%.
However, the close decision to hold and updated gloom forecasts from the bankers are likely to be the expectations of December after the amount of the rate of the rate of the budget of Rate to melt the budget of the Rate of the Budget of the Rate of the Budget of the Budget of the Rate of the Budget of the Ocean of the Budget of the Rate of the Budget of the Rate of the Big Budget.
Expressing growing concern over the strength of the economy, the bank said unemployment would rise to a higher peak of 5% early next year.
It said inflation is likely to have gained 3.8%, below the previous forecast for an increase of about 4% next year before returning to the 20% target in 2027.
Threadneedle Street warned that the Reeves budget may have contributed to the weakness of the economy in recent months, and households are also wary of spending on living expenses.
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However, the mediators who signed revealed that they feel that inflationary pressures may continue to weigh on households and businesses.
While most of the MPC said it was a risk that the current high rate of inflation could encourage workers and prices to quit, the bank said that the risks hit the bottom.
Willing to sign in the coming months, Bailey explained the MPC minutes: