Labour tax plans will push up loan rates, warns Clarke
The government last night fought off all-party criticism of Gordon Brown's tax policies which his Conservative predecessor, Kenneth Clarke, warned would help to push up b...
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Rates relief for industry
Manufacturers and homeowners sighed with relief yesterday as the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee voted to leave borrowing costs on hold, adding weight t...
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Interest rates: the Bank postpones the inevitable
Of all their recent decisions on interest rates, this was probably the one which kept the members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee tossing and turning i...
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US puts up interest rates
The US central bank increased the cost of borrowing for the fifth time in nine months yesterday in an attempt to slow down the record-breaking US economy.
Yesterday's d...
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Inflation fears drive up eurozone rates
Signs of inflationary pressure in the 11 member countries of the eurozone prompted the European Central Bank to raise borrowing costs yesterday for the second time in six...
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ECB in the dock over exchange rate
With Rhodia just about to sign up a 1.2bn euro Anglo-US acquisition, thus increasing its exposure to sterling and the dollar, the chief of the French speciality chemicals...
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Woman, 81, jailed for not paying rates
An elderly spinster yesterday began a two-week prison sentence for owing £2,700 in rates.
Ellen Copson, 81, was jailed by magistrates at Droitwich, Worcestershire, ...
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Holiday buying binge adds to threat of higher rates
Shoppers went on a combined Christmas and millennium binge last month, raising fears that the Bank of England will deliver another blow to homeowners next month in the fo...
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Cut rate
A nine-member monetary policy committee is unnecessarily large (Bank raises interest rates again, January 14). It appears to either raise rates a quarter, lower them a qu...
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City expects MPC to raise loan rates
Business leaders yesterday appealed to the Bank of England's monetary policy committee to spare industry an interest rate rise when it holds its first meeting of the new ...
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