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Stubborn inflation may rule out a summer interest rate cut

17 July 2024

6:45 PM

17 July 2024

6:45 PM

The UK’s inflation rate is comfortably back to target: inflation held at 2 per cent in the 12 months leading up to June, the Office for National Statistics confirmed this morning. This rate is unchanged from last month.

Yet this morning’s news is stirring up doubts that the Bank of England will go for its first rate cut in August.

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