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The Bank of England will not hike interest rates until well in to 2015 at the earliest, according to Hawksmoor Investment Management's head of research, Jim Wood-Smith.

Britain must see a business recovery before interest rates can begin to rise, according to Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England.

The Bank of England has today said it will not hike rates "for some time to come" - with the base rate potentially at 2% by 2017 - as governor Mark Carney begins to alter his forward guidance policy.

The Governor of the Bank of England has indicated his policy of linking interest rates to unemployment could be scrapped less than six months after its creation.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) should hold off on raising interest rates even though its stated threshold for doing so - a fall in the unemployment rate to 7% - is in sight, according to a report.

Business secretary Vince Cable has warned interest rates may have to rise to hold back a "raging housing boom" in London and the south-east.

All bets are off on when the Federal Reserve may begin tapering, and investors should therefore prepare themselves for a taper as early as this week, said M&G's Anthony Doyle.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will act to prevent the housing market growing at 'warp speed', and said there are economic tools he can use other than keeping interest rates low.

It is still the main topic in town. We have had some wobbles in markets as investors have taken fright at the idea of fewer new dollars around.

The Bank of England's (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain UK interest rates at their historic low of 0.5%.