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2. Official bank rate - Wikipedia

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   The official bank rate has existed in various forms since 1694 and has ranged from 0.1% to 17%. [7] The name and meaning (depositing vs lending) of this key interest rate has changed over the years. The current name, Official Bank Rate , was introduced in 2006 [ 7 ] and replaced the previous Repo Rate (repo is short for repurchase agreement ...

3. Bank of England cuts interest rates to 4.75% - AOL

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   The Bank of England reduced the base rate from 5 per cent to 4.75 per cent on Thursday, ... three- and five-year fixed-rate bonds. This is because bank swap rates – the rate lenders pay ...

4. Interest rates live updates: Bank of England base rate cut to ...

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   The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the second time this year, in good news for mortgage-holders and other borrowers. Policymakers at the Bank of England opted to reduce interest rates ...

5. Cautious Bank of England hold rates, extends bond reduction plan

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   LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England kept interest rates at 5.0% on Thursday, saying it would be careful about future cuts, and also held off from running down its bond holdings at a faster pace ...

6. Bank of England - Wikipedia

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   The mechanism required the Bank of England to purchase government bonds on the secondary market, financed by creating new central bank money. This would have the effect of increasing the asset prices of the bonds purchased, thereby lowering yields and dampening longer-term interest rates.

7. Interest rates – live: Rates hit 15-year high as ‘mounting ...

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   The Bank of England has pushed interest rates to a fresh 15-year high, as it announced its 14th consecutive rise in the cost of borrowing.. The central bank raised its base rate by a further 0.25 ...

8. Gilt-edged securities - Wikipedia

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   The UK was one of the first developed economies to issue index-linked bonds on 27 March 1981. Initially only tax-exempt pension funds were allowed to hold these bonds. The UK has issued around 20 index-linked bonds since then. Like conventional gilts, index-linked gilts pay coupons which are initially set in line with market interest rates.

9. Bank of England cuts UK interest rates again despite modest ...

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   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 ...