Commenting on today’s MPC decision to make no change to the base rate or QE, Tom Hooper, economist at KPMG, said:
‘It comes as no surprise that the Monetary Policy Committee has decided to sit on its hands. After all, it was only last month that they decided to embark on another round of QE – and it will take some time for the effects of that injection to feed through. For now – the Committee has sensibly opted to wait and see.
But the overall picture remains bleak. Output has gone nowhere for the past two years and remains over 4% below its previous peak. And the economy is currently shrinking, rather than recovering.
Looking ahead, more imaginative monetary policies - and perhaps even a fiscal stimulus - may be required to counteract the contractionary forces which are now gripping the economy. ‘
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