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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Michael Hunter

'Momentous' inflation data will give big clue on interest rate cut timing

The fate of an early summer interest rate cut may be defined this week, by hotly anticipated inflation data that will reveal how close the rate of rising prices is to the Bank of England’s official 2% target. 

Mortgage holders, house hunters, City experts and millions of other borrowers and savers are waiting for clues on the timing of the first rate cut of the post-Covid era. 

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