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Lower LIBOR will not prevent interest rates falling to 4%

The rapid fall in interbank interest rates towards more normal levels is a welcome development but does not negate the need for further cuts in official interest rates. The growing emergence that the previously high level of interbank rates and the associated credit crunch is starting to bite will eventually force the MPC to reduce interest rates all the way to 4%.

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