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Policymakers at the Bank of England opted to reduce interest rates to 4.75 per cent today, down from 5 per cent. They had also been cut by 0.25 percentage points in August, which marked the first ...
Announced on 6 May 1997, only five days after that year's General Election, and officially given operational responsibility for setting interest rates in the Bank of England Act 1998, the committee was designed to be independent of political interference and thus to add credibility to interest rate decisions.
On 2 August 2018 the Bank of England base rate was increased to 0.75%, [2] but then cut to 0.25% on 11 March 2020, [3] and shortly thereafter to an all-time low of 0.1% on 19 March, as emergency measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
In Europe, Sweden's central bank cut rates by 25 basis points and Norway's kept its rates on hold, both as expected. The Bank of England will announces its rate decision at midday. FED-INDUCED SELLOFF
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [2]
The average rate for shorter 15-year terms is 6.11% for purchase and 6.13% for refinance, down 3 basis points from 6.14% for purchase and 2 basis points from 6.15% for refinance this time last ...
List of time zones by country – sorted by number of current time zones in the world; List of UTC offsets – current UTC offsets; List of time zone abbreviations – abbreviations; List of tz database time zones – zones used by many computer systems as defined by IANA; List of military time zones; Country-specific: List of time zones by U.S ...
The Bank of England is also meeting on interest rates this week and will announce its decision on Thursday. In Japan, where the Bank of Japan will wrap up its own policy meeting on Friday, the ...