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MNI BOE Review - June 2023: 50bp but what next?

  • The Bank of England hiked rates by 50bp. Markets had priced in a 25% probability of this outcome while none of the analyst previews that we had read (or indeed those surveyed by Bloomberg) expected a 50bp hike.
  • The MNI Markets team still thought that a 25bp hike was justified in order to keep inflation expectations under control and we don’t think 50bp will add any benefit in the near-term, unless the Bank was really concerned that inflation would be impacted in the short-term.
  • The market’s hypersensitivity to inflation data (and to a lesser extent labour market data) looks justified for the foreseeable future.
  • We think that the bar to another 50bp hike is very low and we would need to see a meaningful decline in inflation in order for the MPC to reduce the pace back to 25bp.
  • We have read through over 20 analyst reviews and the sellside is now split between a 5.50% and 5.75% terminal rate.
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