QE

We believe the investment backdrop remains structurally difficult.

Today the MPC left interest rates untouched for another month in a widely expected move, while leaving quantitative easing on hold, but calls for the Bank to take a more pro-active approach to boost growth are getting louder.

Minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting suggesting its quantitative easing programme could end sooner than expected have hit equity markets overnight.

The Treasury Committee has called for additional evidence to help its inquiry into quantitative easing as it widens the scope of its investigation.

The US Federal Reserve has expanded the scope of its quantitative easing programme and suggested interest rates will not rise until US unemployment falls below 6.5%.

Sir Mervyn King, the Bank of England's Governor, told the Chancellor that £37bn cash the Treasury claimed from the QE programme will not help the UK's finances.

The Bank of England still has the 'firepower' to boost the economy through another round of quantitative easing (QE), policymaker David Miles had said.

The UK's main inflation rate has jumped sharply to 2.7% in October, having fallen to a 34-month low of 2.2% in September.

Tim Drayson, economist at Legal & General Investment Management, reviews the recent pledges of the world's largest central banks and their potential impact on the "great muddling through"

The manager of the world's largest bond fund has said a Red or Blue victory will not make any difference to the US economy as the effects of monetary policy have already reached their limits.