The interest rates were kept steady by the Bank of England on Thursday after an unexpectedly weak economic data and a careful rhetoric from Governor Mark Carney who had an almost increase just a few weeks ago.
As of the moment, investors are looking out if Carney would maintain the market expectations for an August rate hike on the next speech about the interest rates after 1100 GMT (7.00 a.m. ET). Alternately, he could say that hedging would be a safer decision.
The U.K. economy looks weak at the present while the BoE “seems to be blowing hot and cold”, as described by an economist at Legal & General Investment Management, Hetal Mehta.
Since Carney positioned in 2013, he has signaled the possibility of rate hikes from the record low of 0.5 percent that peaked during the financial crisis on 2008-2009 yet relative to the poor performance of the economic data.
The British currency declined to a four-month low against the U.S. on Tuesday with markets deviate from probability for growth on interest rates on both sides of the Atlantic.
Climate condition of heavy snow has slowed down the economic growth of Europe in March. The weakest progress in Britain. Similarly, the Britain has a slowed growth but due to the European Union. Brexit-related pressure has influenced the consumer spending power that affects the willingness to sign most of the investments.
Also, surveys of business and consumer activity later demonstrate a slight rebound in April that further supports the perspective of Statistics agency in Britain that slowed growth to 0.1 percent in the first quarter which is not mainly because of the weather.
