MPC should ignore the noise and avoid another rate hike

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By the time the Bank of England's interest-rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announces its latest UK base rate decision on Thursday, seven weeks will have elapsed since they elected to nudge the country's borrowing costs up from near-zero to 0.25%.

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