Carney Wins QE Consensus on First BoE Meeting

Bank of England policymakers swung behind the new governor, Mark Carney, and voted unanimously against extending quantitative easing at this month’s monetary policy committee meeting.

David Miles and Paul Fisher, the two MPC members who had repeatedly backed Sir Mervyn King’s calls for an extension of the deflation-busting policy, decided instead to switch their votes and support Carney’s plan of leaving QE unchanged, amid signs that economic recovery was becoming “more firmly established”.

However, the minutes also showed that the MPC plans to use an August deadline to examine its policymaking remit, set by the chancellor, to establish “the quantum of additional stimulus required and the form it should take”. That suggests Miles and Fisher may simply have decided to await next month’s meeting before pushing for a fresh round of QE

via The Guardian

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