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Carney Struggles to Make Himself Heard Above the Brexit Bedlam

Mark Carney, left, on May 2.Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Mark Carney is struggling to convince investors to take him at his word.

The Bank of England governor spent Thursday’s press conference making the case for faster interest-rate hikes than prices imply. Money markets barely budged, with investors seeing little chance of a move by the BOE this year, and the pound and gilts were similarly unimpressed.