7, 2024. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP) LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.75% on Thursday after inflation across the U.K. fell significantly, relieving some pressure on borrowers who ...
Nov. 7, 2024, 8:45 AM ET By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.75% on Thursday after inflation across the U.K. fell significantly, relieving some pressure on borrowers who have faced elevate...
Other than adjusting the interest rates to the accurate level to keep abreast of import inflation, the economic projections for the UK paint a bleak outlook for the next two years. The UK is projected to enter a recession in the final quarter of this year, the Bank of England announce...
the Bank’s projections, which were revised slightly lower for 2023 and 2024, still revealed that inflation will remain above the 2 per cent target and only return to that target by the second quarter of 2025. This underscores the MPC’s view that the Bank rate must remain restrictive...
With the European Central Bank (ECB) cutting interest rates by 25 basis points on 6th June, 2024, the financial community is abuzz with speculation regarding when the Bank of England (BoE) will follow suit. This potential change would reverse the rate-hiking cycle that has marke...
Three things about the Fed’s new communication stands out, in our view. First, the median of the new FOMC projections show a rate cut in 2024 despite pencilling in an above-target core PCE (personal consumption expenditure) inflation of 2.3 per cent for the year. This shows that the medi...
What does a Labour win mean for interest rates? With Labour now destined for power in the U.K., analysts are now discussing what this might mean for the Bank of England and interest rate expectations. Sanjay Raja and Shreyas Gopal from Deutsche Bank sent the below comments in a flash res...
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Although most forecasts believe UK inflation will fall below 2 per cent during 2024, economists also think the central bank will need to raise interest rates above the current 4.25 per cent rate to achieve this. Financial markets have priced in a quarter-point rate rise for May and further ri...