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Probably the most impactful is the big spike in February borrowing.
Total borrowing came in at 15.183
billion pounds. According to
Sky News, expectations were for a deficit of just 8 billion pounds.
This unpleasant news comes on the same day as the UK government is due to
introduce its new budget.
At the same time, the Bank of
England came out with its latest
minutes (.pdf), though though the size of the current balance sheet was
agreed two, there were two dovish dissenters:
Regarding the stock of asset purchases, seven
members of the Committee (the Governor, Charles Bean, Paul Tucker, Ben
Broadbent, Spencer Dale, Paul Fisher and Martin Weale) voted in favour of the
proposition. Two members of the Committee (David Miles and Adam Posen) voted
against, preferring to increase the size of the asset purchase programme by a
further £25 billion to a total of £350 billion.
The pound is lower on the news.
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