Interest rates

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• Bank of England committee signals no rise soon for interest rates

  22 Oct 2014: Monetary Policy Committee vote of 7-2 to keep interest rates at historic low of 0.5% overruled dissenters for third month in row

• Will the Bank’s 7-2 vote on interest rates entice consumers to spend?

  22 Oct 2014: Phillip Inman: Rates will remain steady for now, but mortgage payers might play a cautious hand after all the ‘will they, won’t they’ discussion

• Bank of England committee voted 7-2 to keep interest rates steady

  22 Oct 2014: Premature tightening in monetary policy could leave the UK vulnerable to shocks, say majority of MPC members in October

• Why the decision on interest rates is held between the agony and ecstasy

  19 Oct 2014: Larry Elliott: Upbeat figures on growth, unemployment and inflation are cancelled out by what’s happening to real wage growth, productivity and real interest rates

• Bank of England’s chief economist struggles with stance on Britain’s prospects

  19 Oct 2014: Andy Haldane’s admission that he was gloomier about the economy surprised the markets, but he insists the UK is doing well in some respects, writes Katie Allen

• Raising UK interest rates ‘simply isn’t cricket’, says Bank’s chief economist

  17 Oct 2014: Andy Haldane deploys batting statistics to explain why he favours a delay in raising interest rates in the near future

• Bank of England chief economist ‘gloomier’ about UK prospects

  17 Oct 2014: Pound falls as Andrew Haldane predicts continuing low interest rates amid macro-economic ‘agony and ecstasy’

• Banks must prepare customers for mortgage rate rise, warns RBS chief

  16 Oct 2014: Ross McEwan said bank will carry out research to win back trust and ease concerns over the impact of an increase

• Interest rates: Bank of England should ignore inflation dip, says MPC member

  15 Oct 2014: Martin Weale indicated that he will continue to vote for immediate rate hike and supported tightening credit this year

• Surprise inflation fall may put interest rate rise on hold

  15 Oct 2014: Consumer prices index drops to five-year low, leaving markets to predict borrowing costs to rise in mid-2015

• Bank of England’s rate rise looks a way off as it misses inflation target

  14 Oct 2014: Nils Pratley: Bank chief Carney may have to write to chancellor as price of oil falls and supermarkets try to cap price of food

• UK inflation falls to five-year low of 1.2%

  14 Oct 2014: News surprises financial markets and prompts traders to push back bets of when the Bank of England will raise interest rates

• UK inflation falls to five-year-low: what the economists say

  14 Oct 2014: A roundup of the reaction to news that UK inflation fell to 1.2% in September, lower than the expected drop

• Interest rate rise fears help dampen housing demand

  9 Oct 2014: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says real wage freezes and uncertainty have put off potential property buyers

• IMF warns period of ultra-low interest rates poses fresh financial crisis threat

  8 Oct 2014: Almost zero borrowing costs has encouraged speculation rather than hoped-for pick up in investment, says Fund

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