Interest rates 'kept too high
The Bank of England has kept interest rates higher than necessary to keep inflation safely below the government's 2.5% target, economic researchers claim today.
In a se...
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Rate rise fears grow as retail sales bounce back
Britain's consumers flooded back to the shops in February, causing the largest one-month increase in retail sales since the millennium boom of January 2000, official figu...
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Howard lauds Brown on interest rates
Shadow chancellor Michael Howard yesterday chose the platform of a centre-left think tank to declare there is now a consensus between Labour and the Conservatives over in...
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Deprivation and soaring crime rates
The Stapleton Road area of Bristol and the West ward of Rhyl, north Wales, were yesterday named as among the five worst crime spots in Britain and the first to be declare...
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Bank leaves interest rates at 4%
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) today left interest rates unchanged at 4% for the fourth month running.
The Bank of England governor, Sir Edward G...
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Crackdown on credit card 'teaser' rates
The Office of Fair Trading this week came to the rescue of consumers bamboozled by confusing and misleading advertising used by credit card companies and banks to promote...
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Schr?der: EU should set tax rates
The EU and not national governments should have the final say in setting tax rates, the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, has said today, sparking fresh debate ab...
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Cool it, Sir Eddie tells rate markets
The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Eddie George, yesterday moved to calm City speculation that interest rates are about to rise.
Since inflation surged above the ...
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Readmission rates strike NHS warning
Scores of hospitals are having to readmit large numbers of patients as emergencies within a month of discharging them, a worrying trend amid generally positive signs of i...
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Bank soothes rate rise fears
The Bank of England yesterday shrugged off the sharp rise in inflation in January, easing fears that the monetary policy committee might raise rates as soon as next month...
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