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Early thoughts on this week's MPC meeting

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Against this Brexit backdrop, the Bank of England MPC meet this week.

  • After announcing its intention to increase asset purchases to last until the end of 2021 at its November meeting, the focus at this meeting will be on the implementation of QE.
  • The initial pace of QE has yet to be confirmed (although it was previously suggested that the pace would remain unchanged). We suspect there may be a case for increasing the pace in the case of a no deal Brexit, but whether we have any more clarity on this by the time of the MPC meeting is anyone's guess.
  • We are also expecting the details of any technical changes to QE – buckets, gilts eligible for purchases etc. We will write on this in more detail in our BOE Preview out Wednesday but we wrote our preliminary thoughts on this in our November BOE Review.

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