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Continued developments in Iraq will be the main factor driving markets.
In reality, Gordon Brown's forecasts will have to be slashed to around 1.75 percent,
There's still a lot of confusion about what the sectors mean. I think it's going to take some time for the individual analysts to become familiar with their new companies.
Base rates will almost certainly remain on hold at 4.5%.
Marks & Spencer has got its act together, ... There has been a UK retail boom in December but January has gone off to a slow start.
We think the door is still open for a cut in rates over the next two months, perhaps as soon as next month.
Overall, it would take some very weak data to trigger another cut. While this is not impossible, especially if consumption trends are weak, the balance of risks has turned and we now believe that base rates will remain on hold at 4.5 per cent for the rest of the year.
Our view is that base rates will remain on hold for the rest of the year, but that if there were to be a move, it would be down.
Our view continues to be that unless the economy veers sharply from its present course one way or the other, base rates will remain at 4.5 percent for the rest of the year.
Children with the most agile minds have the most rapidly changing cortex.