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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 ...
The Bank of England’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee kept its main interest rate unchanged at 4.75% with new data showing inflation rising to 2.6%, further above the bank's 2% target.
LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England policymakers voted 6-3 to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday, a bigger split than economists had predicted as officials disagreed over how to respond to a ...
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
Unemployment is a major social issue in India. As of September 2018, according to the Indian government, India had 31 million jobless people. [48] The numbers are widely disputed.The uses of digital manufacturing and machinery in factories and garments are leading to unemployment in India. The unemployment rates declined to 6.5% in January 2021.
Current unemployment rates by country; OECD Unemployment statistics; Unemployment statistics by Lebanese-economy-forum, World Bank data; Labour and unemployment statistics by country; Thermal maps of the world's unemployment percentage rates – by country, 2007–2010
A quarter-point cut is forecast on Thursday, but Labour’s Budget has trimmed hopes of a rapid string of rate cuts afterwards. Bank of England rate cut expected despite ‘fiscal loosening’ of ...
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 ...