Old Lady turns blind eye to problems in the factories and keeps interest rates on hold
The Bank of England ignored evidence of a deepening slump in manufacturing yesterday to leave interest rates on hold at 4%.
Despite calls from industry for lower borrow...
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Interest rates expected to hold
The Bank of England was today forecast to keep interest rates on hold at 4% for the third month running, in a move which will disappoint homeowners and recession-hit manu...
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Rights issue that rates as a late discovery
For nearly five years now, ICI has been reassuring anyone who wanted to know that its mountainous debts were more than manageable. Never mind that at £2.9bn, they to...
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HIV rates will almost double by 2005
The number of people living with diagnosed HIV is set to rise by almost 50% by 2005, public health officials warned today. The latest UK-wide projections show the number...
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Fed pegs rates after year of cuts
The US Federal Reserve ended its year-long campaign of interest rate cuts last night, keeping borrowing costs unchanged after government figures showed the economy record...
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Rising demand for nannies boosts pay rates
The fast growing demand for daily nannies to look after children whose parents both work has boosted incomes in central London by nearly four times the rate of inflation,...
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Patient death rates to be made public
The patient death rate of every heart surgeon in the country is to be made public within two years, the government announced yesterday in its final response to the Kenned...
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League tables to show surgeon death rates
The first league tables of heart surgeons' death rates were today promised by the government in its latest attempt to create a more patient-centred NHS and make doctors m...
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US fails to respond to rate cuts
The Federal Reserve, America's central bank, dashed hopes of an early recovery in the world's biggest economy when it warned yesterday that despite 11 cuts in interest ra...
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Sir Eddie denies that rates will soon be on way back up
Sir Eddie George, the governor of the Bank of England, last night eased fears of early increases in interest rates to choke off Britain's consumer boom. He said that borr...
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