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Bank holds interest rates

September 7, 2007 by admin  
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee (MPC) has decided to keep interest rates at 5.75 per cent for at least the next month.

Although rates have not risen since July, that was the fifth rise within 12 months and there were concerns earlier in the year that rates would hit six per cent before the end of 2007.

However the inflation rate currently sits at 1.9 per cent, below its target level of two per cent and the current problems in the financial markets are making further rises less likely.

In a statement that accompanied the decision, the MPC said that it had considered carefully the effects that recent credit market problems, brought about by the collapse of the US sub-prime borrowing market, could have on the inflation rate.

Responding to the news, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) welcomed the bank’s decision to hold rates steady at 5.75 per cent.

Micheal Coogan, director general of the CML, said: “Credit conditions have tightened since the rate went up in July, and a further increase would have added to the liquidity problems we are already seeing in some sections of the market.

“At the same time, there is now much clearer evidence that the cumulative effect of five rate rises since last August is slowing activity in the housing market.”

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