The head of the Bank of England has said he is "much more hopeful" for the UK economy, as interest rates were raised to their highest for 14 years. The decision to lift rates to 4.25% from 4% came after the inflation rate rose unexpectedly last month. It also follows the collapse of...
题目A recent BBC documentary, "The Town That Never Retired", sought to show the effects of【C1】___the state pension age by putting retirees back to work.【C2】___the results were entertaining, they need not have【C3】___. Away from the cameras,【C4】___numbers of older...
The chancellor also pushed back at suggestions that the pay rises she awarded on Monday will stoke inflation. She added: "It's up to the Bank of England to make their decisions around interest rates and to forecast inflation. I made the decision on Monday to… give a pay rise to our ar...
Interest rate cuts are coming Cooler inflation should open the door tointerest rate cuts, but not straight away. Last week theBoE’smonetary policy committeeagain voted tohold interest rates at 5.25%. Seven committee members opted to hold, with two supporting a cut. Subscribe toMoneyWeek Subscrib...
Zopa is a peer-to-peer lending site that’s been going in the UK for about three years, and recently launched in the US, Japan and Italy. It’s completely legitimate in terms of its business (although some criticize its business model!) It’s been covered by both theBBCand theFT. ...
This paper applies the Kalman filter technique to look at the relationship among real interest rates, inflation, and the term structure of interest rate under the expectations hypothesis. Using quarterly data from 1960:1 to 1991:1 for inflation, three month nominal short term interest rates and ...
Finally, Jessica fromCredit Reportwrote to me to flag up her new UK site that offers all kind of advice about maintaining a decent credit file. 99% of such emails are spam, but this site looks like the real thing and has plenty of good advice. ...
the number of searches increased more dramatically in late September and early October, in line with intense media interest (e.g.,Cobb, 2023;Kelly, 2023). Interest in the UK was delayed until October (red line inFig. 3e), which was paralleled by 20 mentions on the BBC website that mont...
we noticed at least four types of patterns in the term structure reaction of interest rates across maturities, including the hump-shaped one that is gener... DM Guegan,F Ielpo - HAL 被引量: 28发表: 2007年 AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UK TREASURY BILLS AND THE TERM STR...
Using the Advantage as a guide (recognising differing labour rates, costs of living and production), the difference between the cost of comparable goods and the value released when re-sold in the importing country, companies and traders operating in this way would be subject to a levy designed...