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Bank of England voted 7:2 to hold interest rates steady – as it happened

22 Oct 2014: The Bank of England has published the minutes of its monthly rate-setting committee, revealing that a majority voted to keep interest rates at 0.5%
ECB to spend €1 trillion on covered bonds to kickstart euro economy

20 Oct 2014: The bank’s aim is to revive economies in the single currency zone that have been hit by a decline in business lending
Germany’s tough economic medicine risks killing off the European project

19 Oct 2014: Business leader: Berlin’s increasingly hardline stance on spending caps on France and Italy could drive them out of the euro
The Guardian view on Europe’s economic troubles

17 Oct 2014: Editorial: Tumbling markets, anxieties over the viability of banks and differences over austerity show that the crisis in the eurozone is still very much with us
Eurozone crisis: interactive timeline

17 Oct 2014: Bailouts, riots, recession - key events in the five years of the eurozone crisis
Europe in turmoil: five years of economic crisis

17 Oct 2014: Greece’s admission in October 2009 that it had a huge black hole in its finances triggered five years of bailouts, market turmoil and protests
Greece tells IMF it wants early exit from rescue programme

12 Oct 2014: Largest such programme in global financial history had aimed at preventing debt crisis from spreading through the eurozone
German recession fears grow with latest industry data

7 Oct 2014: August industrial output slumps 4%, the biggest drop since January 2009
ECB president stung by austerity critics as Naples hit by protests

2 Oct 2014: Mario Draghi, holding off on announcing new measures or revealing more about asset purchases, defends European Central Bank’s role in easing the eurozone crisis
Mario Draghi defends ECB as anti-austerity protests rock Naples -- business live

2 Oct 2014: The European Central Bank president insists that it helped fix the crisis, amid anti-austerity demonstrations in Italy
British and German factories see sharp slowdown in manufacturing

1 Oct 2014: Stock markets fall across UK, Europe and US as sluggish eurozone and global conflict hit economies
Germany’s malaise shows eurozone can’t cut its way to prosperity

1 Oct 2014: The experiment – German designed, German engineered and German exported – with austerity has failed, writes Larry Elliott
Lloyds fires eight staff over Libor scandal, and withholds bonuses - as it happened

29 Sep 2014: Lloyds Banking Group has dismissed eight staff over their role in the rigging of benchmark interest rates, and will hold back £3m of unvested bonuses
Debt forgiveness could ease eurozone woes

26 Sep 2014: Bob Swarup: Any solution to Europe’s economic woes that does not involve large-scale debt forgiveness is doomed to failure
Shares fall on global stock markets as worry over US interest rates ripples out

25 Sep 2014: Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 250 points amid speculation that Federal Reserve is edging closer to increase in borrowing costs