Interest rates

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  Interest rates: voting for rise shows lack of compassion for low-income families

  10 Sep 2014: Mark Carney looks to jobs market as justification for vote, but agrees many still forced to take low paid low hours jobs

• Bank of England boss: interest rates likely to rise months before wages do

  9 Sep 2014: Mark Carney tells TUC congress workers will need to improve productivity and skills to claw back decline in real-term pay

• Mark Carney warns TUC that pay rises may come after mortgage hike

  9 Sep 2014: Bank governor plays down hit to living standards saying rate rises would be gradual and peak well below 4-5% average

• Consider unemployment before raising interest rates, Bank of England urged

  5 Sep 2014: TUC chief says Bank should be judged on ability to keep jobless levels low alongside requirement to keep inflation at or near 2%

• CBI forecasts slowing growth for UK economy

  4 Sep 2014: Group says uncertainty over Scotland and Ukraine will hurt growth as recent improved confidence and better credit wears off

• Reserve Bank holds cash rate at 2.5% with no hint of change

  2 Sep 2014: Governor Glenn Stevens says low interest is helping support economic growth but the strong dollar ‘offers less assistance’

• A global economy divided into the good, the bad and the ugly

  1 Sep 2014: Phillip Inman: Poor data from eurozone and Japan comes as investors bet on European Central Bank moving closer to quantitative easing

• First Direct mortgage defies impending rate rise

  30 Aug 2014: HSBC, First Direct, the Woolwich and West Brom all offering fixed-rate mortgage bargains despite looming rate rise

• With interest rates predicted to rise is it time to play safe or to take a gamble?

  25 Aug 2014: Most experts agree that it’s a question of when, not if … Here are some suggestions about what to do if you have a mortgage, savings or investments

• UK wage growth uncertain, says Bank of England deputy governor

  24 Aug 2014: Ben Broadbent says the 'norm' of pay growth may have adjusted to the period of low productivity after the financial crisis

• Bank of England's dissenters face tough task winning an interest rate rise

  24 Aug 2014: Business leader: With inflation likely to fall further and wages weak, the vote for higher rates by Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty looks doomed

• A window on discount Britain shows a long hot summer of fashion bargains

  22 Aug 2014: Low cotton prices and the strong pound add to the 'Aldi effect' in clothes shops

• Stimulating Australia: why lower interest rates may not be the answer

  21 Aug 2014: Despite rising unemployment and lower economic growth, Glenn Stevens believes monetary policy has done as much as it can

• Interest rate rise is coming – but data must be strong enough for all on MPC

  20 Aug 2014:

  Larry Elliot: Bank of England's monetary policy committee split for first time since 2011 but figures still keep seven members on the 'no' side

• Poll: when will UK interest rates rise?

  Poll, 20 Aug 2014:

  The Bank of England's MPC was split 7-2 over the prospect of raising interest rates, with only two members advocating a rise of 0.25

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