The Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates on hold until August 2020 b...
LONDON - The Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates on hold until August 2020 because of a slower global economy and prolonged uncertainty about Brexit, a leading think tank said on Thursday.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research pushed back by a year its previous forecast of a BoE rate hike which it made as recently as February. Britain is facing more uncertainty about its future relationship with the European Union after a deadline for Brexit was delayed from April 12 until the end of October this month.
The British central bank has raised rates twice to 0.75 percent from an all-time low of 0.25 percent but Governor Mark Carney said the outlook for the economy is now shrouded in the “fog of Brexit.”
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