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BoE's King on the UK's new inflation measure

In a speech given on 20 January Mervyn King of the Bank of England said reinforced expectations of higher borrowing costs in the UK saying that the BoE's new inflation target would not mean looser policy than otherwise would have been.

"The change in target gives the impression that inflation has moved from above to below target. Does this mean that monetary policy in the coming months will need to be looser under the new target than it was with the old target? The answer is no," he said.

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