Coutts' Higgins: Carney cannot face being called the 'unreliable boyfriend' anymore

Overweight UK equities

Tom Eckett
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Coutts' chief investment officer Alan Higgins has said the Bank of England needs to start raising interest rates while "the sun is shining" on the UK economy because at some point rates will have to start coming down again.

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