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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ECB to review rate-setting procedures
The European Central Bank is to embark on a "serious evaluation" of its monetary policy over the next six months to assess the way it has been setting interest rates in t...
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It's time to raise the rates
If he is serious about wanting National Savings & Investments to be 'the first port of call for people who have money to save or invest', Alan Cook - new chief execut...
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Fed leaves rates alone
Despite last week's news of an increase in unemployment to 6%, the Fed decided that last month's aggressive half-point cut in borrowing costs was enough for the time bein...
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