The Bank of England has once again opted to hold interest rates at 5.25 percent as many wealth managers and economists had predicted.
Of the nine members of the monetary policy committee (MPC), seven voted in favour of holding rates, while two voted to cut by 0.25 percentage points.
Inflation has fallen to 3.2 percent but this is still above the BoE’s target of 2.0 percent, which some – including Hetal Mehta, head of economic research at St James’s Place, be...