Carney: interest rates to rise in ‘relatively near term’

Financial markets expect 0.5% rate rise in November

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Mark Carney says interest rates may rise in the “relatively near term”, leading to speculation there could be an increase in November from 0.25% to 0.5%.

“If the economy continues on the track that it's been on, and all indications are that it is, in the relatively near term we can expect that interest rates will increase,” Carney told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme today.

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