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Trade Splits Will Weigh on World Economy, BOE’s Bailey Says

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey at a press conference.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey at a press conference. Photo: kin cheung/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

A loss of cohesion in global trade will drag the world’s economic growth downward, while the implications for inflation are less easy to call, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned.

“Fragmentation is bad for global growth,” Bailey said in an interview Tuesday at Brussels think-tank Bruegel.

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