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How have expectations changed? (2/2)

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  • The MPC voted yesterday and signed off on the decision before seeing today's market reaction. So we still don't see as a base case a change in the forward guidance to more explicitly try and talk down market expectations of cuts here - but the probability has also risen. If the language was to be tightened today the market could be caught a bit more offside and see a potentially large reversal.
  • If we don't get that and guidance is unchanged, we don't think the market will see it as a hugely dovish development. How far could we go in terms of pricing 2024 cuts? It would be hard to really see the market extend to more than 135-140bp for 2024 as a whole (given that it's hard to really price too much of a chance ahead of the May meeting and May-Dec would only leave six meetings (i.e. 150bp if there were cuts at all 6). We don't think we will get there today - but a dovish MPC today and soft UK CPI next week could see the market move to those extreme levels.
  • Decision, statement and Minutes are out at 12:00GMT with no press conference for a non-MPR meeting.

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