Bank of England governor Mark Carney says there is a 40 per cent chance his threshold for interest rate rises could be met by the end of next year.
Under his forward guidance plans, unveiled in August, Carney said interest rates should not rise until unemployment falls below 7 per cent unless inflation was consistently above 2.5 per cent.
In the Bank’s quarterly inflation report, published today, Carney says there is a two in five chance the threshold could be reached next year, a 60 per cent chance by 2015 and a two-thirds chance by the end of 2016.
It is a significant shift from August forecasts when the Bank gave a 25 per cent chance of meeting the threshold by the end of next year.
The Bank had previously forecast a 40 per cent chance of unemployment falling below 7 per cent by the end of 2015, rising to a 50 per cent chance in early 2016.
Office for National Statistics data, published today, shows unemployment fell to 0.2 per cent to 7.6 per cent in the three months to September.
Interest rates have remained at record lows of 0.5 per cent since March 2009 with former Prime Minister John Major this week suggesting they should rise to 5 per cent to help savers.
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