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Bank of England eyes risk of falling prices, ready to cut rates if needed
The Bank of England sees little need to raise interest rates this year, and stands ready to cut them if inflation dips more deeply into negative territory than expected, a new set of forecasts showed on Thursday. BoE Governor Mark Carney said he expected inflation to fall below zero in the coming months due to tumbling oil prices that are nearly at a six-year low, but stressed that this by itself did not mean that the economy had entered deflation. "The UK is not experiencing 'deflation'," Carney said in a letter to finance minister George Osborne explaining the difference between inflation -- which stood at 0.5 ... (full story)
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