• BoE's deputy governor Broadbent: The main effect on UK inflation is probably from sterling strength

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24 February 2021

BoE's deputy governor Broadbent: The main effect on UK inflation is probably from sterling strength

  • Risks for UK unemployment are in both directions
  • There is clear risk that unemployment will rise significantly once support for low schemes come to end
  • No indication from bond markets that investors see MPC's actions as anything other than necessary to meet inflation objective
  • Brexit deal doesn't have big direct inflation impact
  • We have seen sterling appreciate because of EU trade deal that would have some depressive effect on UK inflation
  • Hard to know if trade frictions are having opposite effect on inflation

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