UK interest rates will fall to 3 per cent next year, says CEBR

From: The Scotsman | Date: September 30, 2002| Author: Bill Jamieson | Copyright information

BRITAIN'S economy is growing at only a snail's pace, and there is a "heavily increased risk" of a world recession, according to a leading forecasting group this morning.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research warns there is now a 35 per cent probability of the international economy slowing so much over the next two years that the world will be trapped in a Japan-style deflationary recession. And it sees UK interest rates being slashed to 3 per cent by the end of next year to p...

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