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How might votes for rate hikes in the UK affect markets?

If tomorrow’s minutes of the UK Monetary Policy Committee’s latest meeting reveal that some members voted to raise interest rates earlier this month, short-term Gilt yields may rise and sterling strengthen. But over the next few years, we think that Gilt yields will increase only slowly and there is actually scope for sterling to fall against the US dollar.

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