Interest rate
10 May 2012
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has resisted calls for further quantitative easing and has left its programme of stimulus unchanged, while holding rates.
18 April 2012
Each of the nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to hold interest rates at the historic low of 0.5% this month, minutes from their latest meeting show.
17 April 2012
India's central bank has cut interest rates for the first time in three years in an attempt to boost growth.
05 April 2012
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 0.5% and resisted another round of quantitative easing amid tentative signs of an improvement in the economic outlook.
21 March 2012
The Chancellor’s full Budget statement said the UK recovery will be “particularly uneven” this year as the economy still faces three major threats.
08 March 2012
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to keep the interest rate at 0.5%, marking three years of the record low figure.
01 March 2012
Market participants are expecting interest rates in the UK to remain on hold until late 2014, according to Bank of England policymakers.
09 February 2012
A Greek minister has resigned over the austerity measures agreed earlier today which were required for debt-laden country to receive a €130bn bailout and avoid default.
01 February 2012
PIMCO's Bill Gross has warned as US interest rates head towards zero, they could be a regressive influence on the economy and may kill rather than create credit.
16 January 2012
The UK is already back in recession and will not see any interest rate rises until at least 2016, according to economic thinktank the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
13 January 2012
Continued pressures on the eurozone and an environment of falling inflation will prompt the ECB to lower interest rates from 1% to 0.5% this year, according to M&G’s Stefan Isaacs.
04 January 2012
The US Federal Reserve is to start publishing forecasts of where it expects interest rates to be in the future in an effort to strengthen the economic recovery.
21 December 2011
Members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to hold rates at their historic low and maintain the quantitative easing (QE) programme at £275bn - but they indicated more QE could be on the way.
14 December 2011
The Federal Reserve has opted to leave monetary policy unchanged and continue with Operation Twist at least until the new year, amid signs the world's largest economy has been expanding.
08 December 2011
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has once again kept interest rates on hold at a record low and left QE unchanged at £275bn.
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