... −71082(continued) Bank of England Interest Rate Announcements and the Foreign Exchange Market ∗ Michael Melvin,aChristian Saborowski,b,cMichael Sager,c,e and Mark P. Taylord,faBlackRockbWorld Bank cDepartment ... that the MPC changed the policy rate or was surprised by the extent of the change. There were no instances where the market expected a change in the policy rate in the opposite direction to the ... No. 3 Bank of England Interest Rate Announcements 231 the high-volatility state and P22is the probability of remaining in the low-volatility state. Normally, we would expect P22>P11 and, from...