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MNI BOE Review - November 2021: Door remains open for Dec hike

  • If yesterday's Bank of England meeting had followed on from the September meeting with no intervening communications, it would have been judged to have been a hawkish hold. The problem was the market's reaction to Governor Bailey's persistent warnings that rate hikes would be required soon, while Bailey provided no pushback against market pricing in any of his public comments between the meetings.
  • We thought the Bank should wait until December to raise rates (but we thought given the inter-meeting communication that we would have seen a hike yesterday). December still remains very much in play.
  • We think market participants will pay less attention to Bailey's communications going forward, but will continue to listen to the individual views of other MPC members.
  • We have also read through and summarised over 20 analyst reviews and note that 12/19 analysts expect a hike in December with the remainder expecting the first hike in February.
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