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The Latest Breaking News from The Bank of England

With the economy faltering, rates may already be too high

City Voices: Most of the macroeconomic factors facing the UK economy, bar inflation, now point to a policy rate which is too restrictive

Evening Standard

One Lombard Street: Here’s to 25 years of partying

It’s an address that has long attracted the rich and famous. David Ellis checks in on a City institution

Evening Standard

Bank of England likely to ignore calls for rate rise restraint despite inflation fall

Business groups and economists fear further increases risk rise in corporate bankruptcies and unemployment

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Bank of England may ease pressure on mortgage holders today by pausing interest rate rises

Markets see Thursday’s interest rate decision from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee more or less a coin toss

Evening Standard

UK inflation in surprise fall in August, though Bank of England still set to raise rates

Inflation in Britain fell unexpectedly in August to its lowest level since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led to sharp rises in energy and food costs

The Independent UK

FTSE 100 Live: ‘Bank of England meeting just got interesting’, blue-chips close highest since May, Fed holds

The Bank of England will today reveal whether interest rates are going up for a 15th meeting in a row.

Evening Standard

Investors cut bets on UK interest rate rise after surprise fall in inflation – as it happened

Odds of an increase in UK interest rates on Thursday fall below 50%, after inflation rate dropped unexpectedly in August to an 18-month low

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Price rise relief after inflation dips to 6.7% in August

Core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, fell to 6.2 per cent, shocking economists and likely putting an interest rate pause on the table when the Bank of England meets on Thursday

Evening Standard

Inflation fall gives Bank of England knife-edge interest rate decision

Financial markets give more than 50% chance of cost of borrowing remaining unchanged for first time in almost two years

The Guardian - UK

Bank of England should speed up interest rate cuts to avoid further pain

City Voices: Higher interest rates and more people out of work means there is just less money to go around

Evening Standard

Is the Bank of England’s gilts offload a ‘selling gold at the bottom’ moment?

City Voices: Andrew Bailey told Parliament last week that interest rates were near the top of the cycle. So why is he so keen to sell gilts?

Evening Standard

Crude oil tops $95 a barrel raising fears of return to rising inflation

Oil price is bad news for central banks trying to tame inflation and will add to pressure to further increase interest rates

The Guardian - UK

The Bank of England should be brave and pause interest rate rises

City Comment: Rate-setters should look past Wednesday’s inflation figures

Evening Standard

Kingfisher shares hammered after B&Q owner warns on profits

CEO Thierry Garnier keeping watch on the Bank of England after high interest rates hit Polish market

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Big Data London: When is the event and who is speaking?

The annual conference will be headlined by history-making British astronaut Tim Peake

The National (Scotland)

'They'd have gone up anyway': Liz Truss shrugs off mortgage rates hike

LIZ Truss has refused to apologise for the impact of her disastrous mini-budget and claimed that interest and mortgage rates would have “gone up…

Evening Standard

Inflation rate set to rise again as Bank of England decision on interest rates looms

Core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, fell to 6.2 per cent, shocking economists and likely putting an interest rate pause on the table when the Bank of England meets on Thursday

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss blames ‘groupthink’ for economic damage under her watch

While former PM takes some responsibility for markets crisis after mini-budget, she says main fault lay with Bank of England

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Evening Standard

FTSE 100 Live: Shares close down 0.8% as oil price surges near $95 a barrel, S4 plunges

A profit warning by B&Q owner Kingfisher and robust trading figures from Ocado provided the main interest in the FTSE 100 today.

AAP

Aust shares fall at start of big week for central banks

The local share market finished down 0.7 per cent at the start of a week that will feature meetings by six central banks and minutes from the RBA.

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss: economic consensus since 1997 to blame for UK woes – not me

Former prime minister to make remarks in speech on Monday almost a year since mini-budget that led to her downfall

The Guardian - UK

A year on from Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the UK economy is still stuck in first gear

Truss was right in saying Britain needed economic growth – where she was badly wrong was in her prescription

Evening Standard

‘Limited’ evidence that pay rises are to blame for inflation of goods, ONS says

Fast-rising wages have been a major subject of concern for the Bank of England, which fears the public’s pay is rising too fast to bring inflation back down to the 2% target

Evening Standard

European Central Bank hikes interest rates to record high with inflation still ‘too high for too long’

It will increase the pressure on the Bank of England to order another hike in UK rates

Evening Standard

‘Recession may have begun’ as UK economy shrinks by 0.5% in July, GDP figures show

Government minister Maria Caulfield conceded that the decline in GDP was “disappointing”

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