Philip Shaw
Philip Shaw
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Economic news since the 4 August easing has been a mixed bag and consistent with rates remaining on hold.
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Everybody's looking toward consumer confidence in the States tomorrow, followed by other data later in the week.
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The fall in unemployment is a bit of a surprise. There are no signs for the time being that wage inflation is picking up although the numbers next month will be critical.
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It's very early to be drawing too many conclusions on the high street after the Christmas and New Year trading period. It's going to take some time for the full picture to unfold.
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That might be happening more efficiently in the most intelligent children. People with very agile minds tend to have a very agile cortex.
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We will see nervous trading ahead, as we have seen from Cisco that the worst is not yet over for corporate earnings.
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This was extraordinarily weak, even taking into account the seasonal unreliability of the data.
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This underpins our view that interest rates will have to come down again although the MPC caution on inflation suggests that's not going to happen until early next year.
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And we find the most intelligent children started off with a relatively thin cortex, but it then got thicker relatively rapidly, reached its peak thickness in certain key areas several years later but then also got thinner quicker.
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While we believe the recent run of stronger high street spending will peter out, a majority of MPC members may differ and we expect official rates to remain on hold at 4.5 percent.
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We found that the cortex showed a different pattern of development.
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What this suggests is that we may have already seen the peak of headline inflation.
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Continued developments in Iraq will be the main factor driving markets.
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We think the chances of a hike next week are virtually zero.