Showing posts with label interest rates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interest rates. Show all posts
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Bank of England Cuts Interest Rates as It Warns Food Costs Could Push Inflation to 4%

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THE GUARDIAN: Bank’s policymakers cut base rate by quarter point to 4% amid concern about strength of UK economy The Bank of England has w...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Pound Plunges as Bank of England Cuts Rates – and Hints at More to Come

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THE TELEGRAPH: The value of the pound has sunk sharply as the Bank of England signalled there would be more interest rate cuts later this ye...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady amid Uncertainty over Trump’s Impact on Economy

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THE GUARDIAN: Fed chair declines to provide ‘any response or comment whatsoever’ on president’s public demands for lower rates Federal Res...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

UK Inflation Rises to 2.3%, Increasing Pressure to Delay Interest Rate Cut

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THE GUARDIAN: Figure is above Bank of England target after energy bills push up prices Inflation increased to 2.3% in October, heaping pre...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Inside Russia: Russia’s Central Bank Has Put Up the Interest Rate to 21%

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Anyone’s savings would grow quickly with a rate like that! Read on and comment. REUTERS: Russia's Nabiullina on raising rates to 21% »
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Bank of England Cuts Interest Rates to 5% in Narrow Vote

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THE GUARDIAN: Reduction is first since March 2020 as governor says inflationary pressures have ‘eased enough’ to enable cut The Bank of En...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Bank of England Set to Rain on Hopes of Interest Rate Cut after Economic Bounce

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THE GUARDIAN: This week’s Bank meeting is unlikely to bring borrowers any joy amid a strong recovery from 2023’s mild recession Savers are...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Daniel Lacalle: Don’t Expect Large Rate Cuts... with This Inflation

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Dec 14, 2023 Daniel Lacalle’s website here in English and here in Spanish.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

IMF Says UK Faces Five More Years of High Interest Rates

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BBC: The UK faces another five years of high interest rates to stem rising prices, an influential global group has warned. The Internation...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Fed Raises Rates after a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years, continuing their 16-month-long campa...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Turkish Central Bank Raises Interest Rates to 15% after Two-year Freeze

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THE GUARDIAN: Experts say increase from 8.5% may be insufficient to tackling surging inflation that some estimate at 110% Turkey’s central...

Bank of England Raises Interest Rates by a Half Point to 5%

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THE GUARDIAN: Move brings borrowing costs to highest level since April 2008 as Bank intensifies efforts to control inflation The Bank of E...
Friday, May 26, 2023

UK Prepares for Recession amid Rising Interest Rates

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May 26, 2023 | Owning a home is getting more expensive as lenders begin putting up mortgage rates, spooked by stubbornly high inflation figu...

Hunt Will Back More Interest Rate Rises Even If It Pushes UK [in]to Recession

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THE GUARDIAN: Chancellor to support Bank of England’s decisions because ‘inflation is a source of instability’ Jeremy Hunt said he will ba...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Bank of England Raises UK Interest Rates to 4.5%

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THE GUARDIAN: Latest 0.25 point hike marks 12th rise in a row as Bank battles stubbornly high inflation The Bank of England has raised i...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Bank of England Poised to Raise Borrowing Costs to Combat Inflation

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THE GUARDIAN: Financial markets expect 0.5 percentage point increase as fears mount that UK is about to enter long recession The Bank of E...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

Bank of England Hikes Interest Rates to 3% in Biggest Rise since 1989

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THE GUARDIAN: Bank fears 0.75 percentage point rise may push UK economy into longer and deeper recession than the 1930s The Bank of Englan...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Mini-budget Will Likely Mean Higher Interest Rates, Warns Bank of England Governor

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THE GUARDIAN: Andrew Bailey says UK borrowers can expect to feel impact of Truss government’s tax and spending decisions Governor of the B...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Daniel Lacalle: Rate Hikes Will Continue as Inflation Remains

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Oct 14, 2022
Friday, October 07, 2022

Global Fallout from Rate Moves Won’t Stop the Fed

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Federal Reserve, like many central banks, sets policy with an eye on the domestic economy. Its battle to control pri...