MPC's Bean: Rates could hit 5% within decade

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The outgoing Bank of England (BoE) deputy governor Sir Charlie Bean has said it is "reasonable" to expect interest rates to return to 5% within a decade.

Market expectations of rates rising to 2.5% over the next three years appeared a "broadly sensible judgment", he said, adding it was rational to expect further increases from there. Bean (pictured), who will step down from his BoE role on 30 June, said it "may well be so" that rates could return to 5% within ten years. "I wouldn't want to say it will be back there in ten years," he said in an interview with Sky News, [but] it might be reasonable to think that, in that very long term, you would go back to 5%." Homeowners have benefited from a historically low base rate of 0.5% for f...

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