Super Thursday: Bank of England transparency or information overload?
by Larry Elliott Economics editor from on (#GHAP)
Mark Carney's tone will pave way for market predictions over interest rate increases - but the data dump may make it harder to scrutinise Bank thinking
It's Super Thursday and the City scribblers can barely contain their excitement. It is the day when they get not one, not two, but three big pieces of information about the economy from the Bank of England.
Threadneedle Street will announce its latest decision on interest rates. It will publish the minutes of the meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee at which that decision was made. And it will present the quarterly inflation report, its take on the state of the nation.
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