With August’s CIPS/Markit measure of services activity rising to a six and a half year high, the UK economy’s dominant sector appears to be roaring ahead. But evidence that increased demand is being met more through higher productivity than rises in employment suggests that the momentum in the economy should not mean that interest rates rise more rapidly than the MPC currently expects.
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