bankofengland.co.uk - 1/8/2009
bloomberg.com - 1/8/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of England
cut the benchmark interest rate to the lowest since...
the central bank was founded in 1694 as policy makers tried to prevent the credit squeeze from deepening Britain’s recession. The Monetary Policy Committee, ...
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BOE Cuts Rate to Lowest Since Bank’s Creation in 1694 ...
online.wsj.com - 1/8/2009
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online.wsj.com —
See Corrections and Amplifications below The Bank of
England cuts its key rate by a half percentage...
point to 1.5%, the lowest level in the bank's 315-year history, marking the latest in global policy makers' efforts to fend off the threat of deep ...
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Bank of England Cuts Rate to Historic Low
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BoE cuts rate 50bps
FT Alphaville —
… taking the base rate to its lowest level since the foundation of the Bank in 1694. From the Bank of England (emphasis ours): The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee today voted to reduce the official Bank Rate paid on commercial bank reserves by 0.5 percentage points to 1.5%. The world economy appears to be undergoing an unusually sharp and synchronised downturn. Measures of business and consumer confidence have fallen markedly. World trade growth this year is likely to be the weakest for some considerable time. In the United Kingdom, business surveys suggest that the ...
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Across the Curve —
Bank of England has reduced rates by 50 basis points to 1.50 percent.
Talking down sterling
FT Alphaville —
You’ve slashed the interest rates, You’ve raised the debt, You’ve crumpled manufacturing, And yet… The currency just won’t stay down anymore . Is this the situation in which the UK now finds itself? FT Alphaville wonders if — having established that sterling weakness is good for the economy in its latest statement — the Bank of England will actually have to talk down the currency? After all, sterling is up on Friday despite some of the worst factory output figures since ...
The Irish find a scapegoat
FT Alphaville —
... a competitive devaluation can be used as any kind of a weapon”. Pretty strong stuff. But Mr Lenihan is half right. Shoppers have been flocking across the boarder to Northern Ireland to take advantage of cheaper prices. Meanwhile, while the Bank of England has been doing everything it can to hasten the decline of sterling - slashing UK interest rates to a 315 year low of 1.5 per cent and flagging the benefits of a weaker currency, for example. In fact, the Bank said as much in the statement accompanying its historic rate cut last week.“At its January meeting, the Committee ...
Bank of England cuts interest rates by 50 bps
FT Alphaville —
Bank of England reduces Bank Rate by 0.5 Percentage Points to 1.5%: 8 January 2009 The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee today voted to reduce the official Bank Rate paid on commercial bank reserves by 0.5 percentage points to 1.5%. The world economy appears to be undergoing an unusually sharp and synchronised downturn. Measures of business and consumer confidence have fallen markedly. World trade growth this year is likely to be the weakest for some considerable time. In the United Kingdom, business surveys suggest that the pace of contraction in activity increased ...
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