Bank of England Raises Interest Rates Back to Pre-Pandemic Level of 0.75%

The policy statement, however, leaned dovish, suggesting consensus expectations for the central bank to bring its bank rate to 2% by year end might have gotten ahead themselves. “Some further modest tightening might be appropriate in the coming months, but there were risks on both sides of that judgment depending on how medium-term prospects evolved,” the MPC said. That quickly sent the British pound lower by about 1% versus the U.S. dollar and the euro.

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