BoE's Bailey: Markets underestimating risk of higher-for-longer inflation

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Financial markets pricing in early rate cuts are relying too much on current data and not enough on future forecasts, and as a result are underestimating the persistence of higher inflation, governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey told MPs.

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