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Mark Carney's Given His Brexit Stimulus a Positive Assessment
Monetary Policy Committee presented an optimistic view of how the market had reacted to its stimulus
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Six weeks after Mark Carney announced a barrage of Bank of England stimulus, he's given an upbeat assessment of the new measures.
The minutes of this week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting were littered with references to market metrics and spelled out how the package — unveiled in August in response to the Brexit vote — had led to a “greater than anticipated boost” to asset prices.