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Financial crisis Interest rates to hit lowest level since 1694
telegraph.co.uk - 10/17/2008
Financial crisis Interest rates to hit lowest level since 1694
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Fear of slump could force Bank of England to cut interest rates down to less than two per cent experts have said.

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Bank of England to Cut Rates
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