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Showing posts with label BoE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BoE. Show all posts

Friday, 3 August 2018

Pound fell to 11-day low due to BoE concern

Today, the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has completed what he did not finish yesterday - expressed obvious concern about Brexit without an agreement.
Carney said in an interview with BBC Radio that the possibility of Brexit without an agreement is inconveniently high.
According to him, it is absolutely in the interests of the UK and the EU to have a transitional agreement, Brexit without an agreement is highly undesirable. This Brexit is likely to mean higher prices over a period of time.
After these comments, the pound sterling fell to an 11-day low.
On Thursday the Bank of England raised interest rates, but at a subsequent press conference, Mark Carney said that there are signs of a softening of business confidence. He also noted that the negotiations between Great Britain and the EU are in a critical phase. All this contributed to the fall of the pound. In addition, as The Guardian, the pound fell against the backdrop of Carney's phrase that monetary policy should walk, and not run, to stay in place, as the natural level of interest rates is slowly rising.
Officials of the Bank of England's committee yesterday also said that to restrain consumer inflation, there will be a constant tightening, but based on futures on central bank funds, investors do not expect a further rate hike until next year.


Monday, 6 November 2017

Carney: Brexit will limit the expansionary policy of BoE

Last week, we witnessed an interesting phenomenon - the British Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, and the British currency collapsed against other major currencies.
Contrary to logic, as the interest rate rises the national currency, the depreciation of the pound is explained by the expectation that the ECB will not raise interest soon.
A testimony of this was given by Mark Carney's last statement. The head of the central bank said in a special interview that Bexit's uncertainty could actually hurt the British economy in the short term and thus curb the central bank's ability to further raise interest rates.
Carney also warned that Britain's most affected by the interest rate hike would be mortgage lending for the purchase of property. This is very likely to make property in the UK even more inaccessible.
Brexit is only 508 days away, but for most businesses their alarms are set for much earlier, according to market observers. About 10% of British businesses are already slowly starting to reposition their businesses and move their workforce outside of the UK.