Savings rates continue to slide
Banks and building societies are continuing to cut their savings rates despite the fact that the Bank of England has left the base rate unchanged for 14 months, a new sur...
|
|
Study to examine working class drop-out rates
A new survey into why working class students drop out of university is to be conducted, it was announced today. The research, which will be organised by the Institute for...
|
|
Jobs gloom increases likelihood of US rate cut
The chances of another US rate cut rose sharply yesterday after government figures showed firms laying off workers at the fastest pace for nearly a year.
More than 101,...
|
|
Europe's rate-setters defy danger signs
The European Central Bank and the Bank of England yesterday dismissed portents of weaker growth and decided to leave interest rates unchanged.
Despite gloomy new foreca...
|
|
Plea for rate cut as shops struggle for custom
The UK's leading retailers' organisation called on the Bank of England to cut interest rates today after reporting yesterday that only a last-minute surge in spending on ...
|
|
ECB holds interest rates
The European Central Bank today held interest rates steady but signalled its readiness to cut the cost of borrowing because of increasing risks to growth.
Wim Duisenberg...
|
|
Cut interest rates now
Europe, including the UK, needs an immediate reduction in interest rates to help prevent the EU's economy from slithering into a fresh recession. The latest evidence of a...
|
|
Gloom will hold rates down
The Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates on hold this week, as new forecasts suggest a sluggish economy and faltering tax revenues over the coming year.
The...
|
|
Euro rates much higher
You say that the cooling in support for the single currency has mirrored the decline in the economy over the past 12 months (The euro one year on, December 27). But the e...
|
|
Two MPC members voted for rate cut
Worry over the UK housing market boom dominated discussions at the Bank of England's interest rates setting committee's latest meeting, minutes from the assembly showed t...
|
|
Engineering 
