Could it be 2020 before the UK sees interest rates rise beyond 0.5%?

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Did everything change on 24 June 2016? The market is a discounting mechanism and the move that followed the result of the EU referendum showed that the majority of market participants had not anticipated the outcome that the UK's voting population produced, writes AXA IM's Jamie Forbes-Wilson.

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