Bank expected to keep interest rates on hold
The Bank of England was expected to keep interest rates on hold today at 4% amid further evidence that the housing market is continuing to boom.
Rates have been held st...
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ECB chief signals rate cut as Berlin realigns
The head of the European Central Bank, Wim Duisenberg, yesterday hinted that the ECB could be prepared to cut interest rates tomorrow to help struggling economies within ...
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Private bill to boost recycling rates
A Labour MP today pledged to bring in a bill to encourage domestic recycling - a move that coincides with tomorrow's pre-Budget report, which is expected to announce new ...
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Rate cut odds lengthen
Prospects of an early cut in interest rates receded yesterday after official figures showed the cost of living last month rose at the fastest pace since April.
Underlyi...
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The new interest-rate orthodoxy is as flawed as the old one
Remember how it was in 1979-1981? Mrs Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe swallowed an untested theory whole and subjected Britain, brutally, to the monetarist experiment. All pol...
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MPC leaves rates on hold
The Bank of England yesterday turned a deaf ear to cries for help from the ailing manufacturing sector and left Britain's interest rates on hold for the 12th consecutive ...
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Bank under pressure to cut interest rates
The Bank of England was today under pressure to lower interest rates to a 47-year low after the US central bank took dramatic measures and cut its rates last night.
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Interest rates timeline
Interest rates are as like the weather: we all watch the forecast and think we know what's going to happen, but at the last minute instead of the predicted hailstorm we g...
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ECB leaves rates at 3.25%
The European Central Bank (ECB) this afternoon left interest rates unchanged as it
refused to bow to intense political pressure to stimulate growth in the
eurozone.
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Fed cuts US interest rates
The US Federal Reserve today cut interest rates to their lowest levels for 40 years in an attempt to keep the world's largest economy from slipping back into recession.
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