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Daily Monitor Chartbook
- Andy Burnham is extremely likely to become the next prime minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election.
- But a raft of U-turns even before he has reached Number 10 leave us with little sense of a ‘grand plan’.
- We see inflation risks, from either higher taxes and spending, or borrowing-funded spending.
- We expect the MPC to vote seven-to-two to hold Bank Rate, with a risk that only Huw Pill votes for a hike.
- Dovish data-flow since the last MPC meeting means that guidance will shift towards being more balanced.
- But rate-setters still need to validate the market curve to maintain tight enough financial conditions.
- We expect payrolls to fall by 15K month-to-month in May after surveys deteriorated.
- The headline unemployment rate should hold steady at 5.0% in April.
- Wage inflation will continue to ease further into the MPC’s inflation-target-consistent range.
- We expect CPI inflation to increase to 3.0% in May, from 2.8% in April.
- Airfares will recover, and last year’s vehicle-duty correction will boost recorded inflation.
- Motor fuel prices have peaked, but utility and food bills will push inflation to a peak of 3.6% in November.
- PMI services responses between the flash and final release were the most optimistic in five months.
- Political noise likely drove revisions, and underlying growth is probably still slowing.
- But the PMI tends to exaggerate growth slowdowns when uncertainty is high.
- We see few signs of changing saving patterns since the Iran war started; households are rejigging assets.
- Strong mortgage approvals and corporate credit flows suggest some front-running of rate hikes.
- But strong April credit growth—after mortgage rates spiked—suggests underlying demand is firm.
- The unwinding of fuel-hoarding likely drove a 0.2% month-to-month fall in GDP growth in April.
- We see risks to our April call in both directions, from better weather and a resident doctors’ strike.
- Downside risks to our forecast for Q2 growth as a whole are building, after the PMI tanked in May.
GROWTH WOBBLES WHILE INFLATION JUMPS...
- …THE MPC WILL HOLD RATES AS LONG AS IT CAN
- The housing market has so far avoided a knee-jerk reaction to the latest energy price shock.
- But rising mortgage rates will limit house prices to 1.0% growth in 2026.
- House price inflation should improve to 3.0% in Q4 2027 as interest rates fall back.
- The insolvency rate remains low, suggesting a resilience to slower GDP growth in H2 2025.
- Higher borrowing costs will hit highly indebted and low-margin sectors of the economy.
- Corporate insolvencies will drift higher in the coming months, but we see few signs of major damage yet.
- Consensus-beating headline GDP growth in Q1 was boosted by a post-Budget rebound in activity.
- We see few reasons, however, to challenge the data on grounds of residual seasonality.
- Rather, tariff front-running, tax changes and pre-Budget uncertainty explain recent growth trends.
- Increased political uncertainty and high energy costs weighed on business sentiment in May.
- But the PMI overreacts to political noise, and price pressures remain strong.
- We stick to our July rate-hike forecast, but it’s a much closer call as downside risks to growth rise.
- Some frozen government-set prices, a utility-bill cut and the early Easter combined to lower inflation.
- We think that most—not all—of the downside inflation surprise in April, such as in airfares, will unwind.
- Weaker underlying inflation lowers the chance of a rate hike, but surveys still point to a sharp acceleration.
- The sharp fall in payrolls in April looks misleading, as they are far weaker than surveys suggested.
- Payroll revisions remain predictable, and April should eventually show jobs little changed month-to-month.
- Falling jobs and dovish pay growth will keep the MPC on hold in June, but we expect wage gains to improve.
- Betting markets give Sir Keir Starmer only 15% chance of being Prime Minister after September.
- So, rates markets have likely mostly priced in the impact of the Labour Party leadership changing.
- We estimate 10-year yields would rise another 7-to-10bp should Mr. Burnham win a leadership contest.
- Some of March’s strong GDP gain was front-running ahead of supply-chain disruption...
- …But our measure of underlying activity grew solidly too, suggesting genuine strength.
- We now expect quarter-to-quarter GDP growth of 0.2% in Q2, up from 0.1% previously.
- We now expect CPI inflation to drop to 3.0% in April from 3.3% in March, in line with the MPC’s call.
- But our forecast is close to rounding down to 2.9%, and uncertainty is high, with many price resets.
- Smaller water-bill and vehicle-tax hikes than in 2025 will slow inflation, but rents will rise by more this April.
- The gilt sell-off has further to run if Sir Keir Starmer is forced out of office in the next few weeks.
- We expect the initial payrolls estimate to show a 10K month-to-month drop in April.
- The unemployment rate should hold at 4.9% in March, and private pay growth should be unchanged.
- We expect CPI inflation to slow to 2.9% in April from 3.3% in March.
- Utility prices fell 6.6% in April, and a range of government-set prices will rise less than a year earlier.
- Our CPI inflation call is 0.1pp lower than rate-setters expect, but we match their services inflation forecast.
- GDP likely declined in March, with falls across the board in the major activity components.
- We still expect quarter-to-quarter GDP growth of 0.5% in Q1, matching the MPC’s forecast.
- Underlying growth likely held firm in March; a good result given the shock of the Iran war.
