Bank of England meet on Thursday May 2 -preview

BoE Monetary Policy Committee meet this week, earlier previews:

• Bank of England policy meeting - heads up preview
• TD on this week's Bank of England meeting

Adding this one in now, via Rabobank (in summary):

• We don't expect the Bank of England MPC to change its policy settings at this week's meeting. This will mean that Bank rate remains unchanged at 0.75%
• We expect the MPC to stick to their guidance of slowly rising rates. Their confidence may even be bolstered a bit by some better-than-expected activity data, while the recent rise in oil prices is likely to have pushed the CPI forecast somewhat higher for the second half of 2019
• But the MPC is for now trapped in a holding pattern due to Brexit. If the uncertainties regarding Britain's withdrawal do dissipate in the second half of the year, it may re-find the confidence to talk about rising rates
• But with the risk of a US recession in 2020 then already looking imminent, we believe the MPC may eventually prefer to hold off acting for longer