BOE's Haldane: BOE is giving 'absolutely no signal' on near-term policy direction

Comments by BOE chief economist, Andy Haldane

• Discussion of BOE policy toolkit is very much in the spirit of contingency planning

This just reaffirms the message from yesterday with regards to negative rates, in that they are not closing the door on it but it has becomes more of an insurance policy rather than a base case scenario when it comes to the current cycle.