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22 May 2012
The Court of the Bank of England has commissioned reviews into the Bank of England’s provision of liquidity to the banking system during the financial crisis and its forecasting abilities.
21 May 2012
Bank of England policymaker Adam Posen will step down from the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on 31 August when his three-year term comes to an end.
11 May 2012
The countries of southern Europe (and elsewhere) are beginning to behave like teenagers after their first all-night party.
09 May 2012
Former Monetary Policy Committee member Andrew Sentance does not expect the Bank of England to unveil more QE tomorrow, and said this is the right course of action to avoid triggering higher inflation.
08 May 2012
If quantitative easing is a great big financial experiment, then arguably giving the Bank of England its independence 15 years ago was an even bigger one.
04 May 2012
Lord Norman Lamont, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has blamed the Bank of England's low interest rate policy in the mid-2000s as the "biggest single contributory factor" of the 2008 crisis.
20 April 2012
Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen’s surprise decision to curtail his calls for further quantitative easing in the UK raises questions over the Bank of England’s next move.
19 April 2012
A former member of the Monetary Policy Committee has claimed Bank of England governor Mervyn King was "unprepared for the crisis" that wrecked the world economy and "controlled the bank with an iron fist."
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.
05 April 2012
The Bank of England is expected to resist unleashing extra emergency support for the economy today amid mixed signals over the fate of the recovery.
13 March 2012
The UK economy is perpetually subjected to shocks and pressures, rendering hopes of maintaining financial stability indefinitely "over-optimistic", Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher said last night.
09 March 2012
The Bank of England will keep interest rates at record lows for another three years, according to Capital Economics.
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
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased its quantitative easing programme by £50bn as it looks to shore up the UK’s ailing economy.
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