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Interest Rate Hike
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- Lemon Quarter
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Interest Rate Hike
"The futures market is now applying a probability of more than 90% to Bank rate rising to 0.25% at the MPC's next meeting on 4 November.
Bank rate is now expected to be 0.5% by the end of February next year and more than 1% by the end of 2022."
https://news.sky.com/story/interest-rat ... n-12437550
Bank rate is now expected to be 0.5% by the end of February next year and more than 1% by the end of 2022."
https://news.sky.com/story/interest-rat ... n-12437550
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- Lemon Half
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
Well there goes the Christmas turkey.
Purely a sportsman's bet but I'm betting against an interest rate rise.
AiY
Purely a sportsman's bet but I'm betting against an interest rate rise.
AiY
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
quelquod wrote:Got your turkey yet?
As he said it is for Christmas not Thanksgiving (which isn't usually celebrated in Yorkshire) so its still a bit early yet.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
Surely the new Covid variant means that a BoE interest rate rise is out of the question until the middle of next year?
Bailey wipes his brow with relief.
Bailey wipes his brow with relief.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
What use are one or two interest rate increases anyway? A token gesture to try to pretend that the BOE are doing something.
Rates will still be below inflation even if inflation comes down to 2% target.
With 5-10yr gilts yielding only 0.6-0.8% it wouldn't take many rate rises to upset the bond markets, with consequences for government borrowing costs.
Rates will still be below inflation even if inflation comes down to 2% target.
With 5-10yr gilts yielding only 0.6-0.8% it wouldn't take many rate rises to upset the bond markets, with consequences for government borrowing costs.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59682521
Bank of England raises interest rates to 0.25%
The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, in response to calls to tackle surging inflation.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
pje16 wrote:0.15 %
That will make a HUGE difference no doubt
I'm not an economist but I seriously doubt interest rate rises will have any consequence on rising costs.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
Decimal point in the wrong place. It should have been 2.5% to get back to a sensible level. Maybe 5% after that. The GBP would react more to something like that. It should never have been so low.
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Re: Interest Rate Hike
tjh290633 wrote:Decimal point in the wrong place. It should have been 2.5% to get back to a sensible level. Maybe 5% after that. The GBP would react more to something like that. It should never have been so low.
TJH
Yes, the BOE and other central banks allowed 'emergency' measures from 2008/9 to continue and now the economy and financial system is worryingly addicted to them.
Interest rates cannot be raised by any meaningful amount and central bank asset purchases cannot be stopped without causing a meltdown in bond markets and/or a meltdown in stock markets.
Central banks no longer have any good choices left; whatever they do will end badly and we are probably within a few months of the tipping point for the beginnings of runaway inflation and/or stock market bear and/or bond market bear and/or recession.
I think if we all look back in 3 - 5 years time, most of us, whatever assets we hold, will be saying how much worry and loss of sleep we suffered in the probable rollercoaster that's coming.
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