Manufacturing fall boosts expectations of rate cut
British manufacturing output unexpectedly fell at its sharpest pace in seven months in October, raising fresh concerns about the sector's recovery from recession.
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Zero corporate rate goes in clampdown on loopholes
The chancellor executed a U-turn yesterday by scrapping the zero rate of corporation tax he introduced just three years ago in a bid to prevent self-employed people becom...
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Interest rates expected to hold steady
The Bank of England holds its latest interest rate meeting on Wednesday and Thursday with financial markets widely expecting the monetary policy committee to leave intere...
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There's no great mystery about cutting hospital death rates. All you need do is keep the really sick people away
University College London Hospitals trust is to attract patients by advertising itself as having the lowest death rates in the National Health Service. I couldn't make it...
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Defiant ECB opts for 'one-off' rate rise
The European Central Bank yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in five years. But Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB president, gave a clear signal the bank has n...
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ECB increases interest rates
The European Central Bank today brushed aside concerns over a fragile economic recovery to raise interest rates for the first time in five years.
Despite European govern...
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ECB set to anger eurozone with rise in rates
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, is preparing to risk the wrath of eurozone governments this week by raising interest rates in the 12-coun...
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MPC likely to freeze interest rates for winter
Interest rates look likely to remain at 4.5% for the foreseeable future while inflation remains above its 2% target, the Bank of England signalled yesterday. Minutes of t...
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MPC 'on hold' over interest rates
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee agreed to keep interest rates at 4.5% this month amid more uncertainty than usual about inflation, min...
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Euro falls amid rate rise doubts
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, gave the euro a fresh downward shove on the foreign exchanges yesterday when he surprised the financial m...
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