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Mar 25 2008
A LEADING business group has challenged Treasury growth estimates with its own more pessimistic forecasts of slowing growth and rising inflation....
Mar 5 2008
INTEREST rates are once again the focus of the markets as they wait to see what action the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee takes when it makes its latest announcement at noon tomorrow....
Feb 8 2008
INTEREST rates need to be cut still further – that’s the view of the region’s business leaders after Bank of England policymakers cut the cost of borrowing by 0.25% yesterday....
Feb 6 2008
BILL Gleeson and Alistair Houghton ask local business owners whether interest rates should be cut or kept on hold by the Bank of England tomorrow...
Jan 30 2008
THE coming days will see a growing clamour as the nation’s business lobbyists demand a cut in interest rates when the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee meets next week....
Jan 23 2008
IMAGINE the circumstances that would lead the Bank of England to cut interest rates by 0.75%. Last time it met, our MPC balked at the idea of a quarter-point drop....
Jan 9 2008
THE Bank of England should cut interest rates again this week in the face of growing evidence that the UK economy faces the prospect of a more significant slowdown than expected accor- ding to EEF, the manu- facturers’ organisation in the North West....
Dec 7 2007
THE impact of the property slowdown in Liverpool was starting to bite last night, after a luxury apartment sold for less than half the price it fetched three years ago....
Dec 7 2007
FEARS that lenders would not pass on yesterday’s interest rate cut to customers eased last night when Halifax, Nationwide and First Direct all said they would apply the cut in full....
Dec 6 2007
THE Bank of England cut interest rates today for the first time in two years amid fears the UK economy could be heading for a sharp slowdown....
