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London: Monetary policy would need to be tightened somewhat earlier and by a somewhat greater extent over the forecast period than anticipated at the time of the November Report," the BoE said.
These sharp moves came after the UK central bank also upgraded its economic growth forecasts for 2018 to 1.8% from 1.6%, while expected inflation rate to remain near 3% on the short term.
Earlier in the day, the BoE’s nine policymakers voted to leave key rates at 0.50% and maintain the quantitative easing programme without changes.
Bank of England Gov. Mr. Carney has said that interest rates will need to rise sooner and a bit more than it thought three months ago after it raised its economic growth forecasts for Britain due to the strong global recovery.