Alex Brummer

Is Mark Carney about to bring Osborne’s cheap debt party to a close?

The new Governor may bring the cheap debt party to a close

issue 29 June 2013

If free and open markets are the Wild West, inhabited by roving bands of asset managers, hedge funds, investment bankers and random traders, then the sheriffs are the central bankers. A change of sheriff makes a real difference to trading conditions. The focus of London traders and analysts has already shifted to a new sheriff with the arrival of Mark Carney at the Bank of England next week, and much anticipation of his new tool of ‘forward guidance’, which he is expected to unveil in August.

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