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Drag from higher interest rates will soon intensify

The recent resilience of the economy to the dual drags of high inflation and higher interest rates doesn’t mean the pain has been avoided. Instead, our analysis suggests that higher interest rates will become a bigger drag on activity in the most interest rate sensitive sectors over the first six months of this year.

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