BoE's Carney: tighter monetary policy will be needed

Adding to his earlier comments, during a scheduled speech in Newcastle, the BoE Governor Mark Carney said that household interest rate expectations of a rate rise this year feel about right and there would be some increase in interest rates at a limited and gradual pace over next few years.

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