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UK Weekly: Rebound in inflation could spell trouble for the BoE

With households particularly sensitive to rising food and energy prices, we're becoming more worried that the Bank of England can't ignore the big increase in food inflation in January and the coming rises in energy inflation. This is one upside risk to our forecast that the Bank will cut interest rates from 4.50% now to 3.50% by early next year.

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