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  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Personal Finance
    NS&I rate cut drives savers into investments

    Government-backed provider latest to join the race to the bottom for savings rates

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Investors unwind bets that Bank of England will cut rates below zero

    Vaccine breakthroughs have shifted market focus to ‘upside rather than downside risks’

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Biden edges to victory, BoE stimulus, Uber miss

    Biden says ‘no doubt’ he will be the next US president while Trump repeats false claims about election

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Bank of England launches £150bn stimulus to boost consumer spending

    Monetary Policy Committee forecasts double-dip recession for UK due to resurgent coronavirus

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    LexBarclays PLC
    Barclays: yield keeled Premium

    Upbeat results give the bank’s stock a welcome surge but the giddiness is likely to be short lived

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    UK economic growth
    MPC member backs further BoE stimulus as UK economy deteriorates

    Gertjan Vlieghe proposes further QE and says he is open to idea of using negative interest rates

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    BoE ‘mixed messages’ keep everyone guessing on negative rates

    Latest comments from policymakers on central bank’s intentions have served to confuse rather than clarify

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    LexNegative interest rates
    Negative interest rates/BoE: from zero to hero Premium

    Potential benefits of negative rates should not be dismissed but the timing matters

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    Negative interest rates
    BoE deputy governor opposes negative interest rates

    Dave Ramsden says current benchmark is the ‘effective lower bound’

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  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    Bailey rules out negative rates in near future

    Bank of England governor warns of ‘hard yards ahead’ for economy as coronavirus infections rise

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
    BoE upends market expectations with comments on negative rates

    Traders reassess possibility of cuts into negative territory after ‘curve ball’ from central bank

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Pound Sterling
    Pound drops after BoE ‘explores’ negative rates

    Sharp decline after latest statement from central bank’s rate-setting committee

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    UK economic growth
    Bank of England warns coronavirus resurgence threatens UK economic recovery

    Monetary Policy Committee also says renewed Brexit tensions pose risk as it holds interest rates at 0.1%

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Markets InsightLotta Moberg
    Today’s ultra-low interest rates are anything but ‘natural’

    Policymakers who have cut rates repeatedly should not be let off the hook so easily

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Bank of England
    Bank of England tempers forecasts for UK economic rebound

    Central bank forecasts output will not recover to pre-Covid-19 levels until end of 2021

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    UK quantitative easing
    Bank of England boosts bond-buying by £100bn but slows the pace

    Continued concern at strength of economic recovery, despite hopes plunge in UK output will be milder than feared

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Monetary policy
    Bank of England forecast to unleash at least £100bn extra stimulus

    Central bank expected to extend quantitative easing programme and keep rates at 0.1%

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Markets InsightHuw van Steenis
    Three good reasons not to dabble in negative interest rates

    The evidence that this policy tool works is too weak to justify the risks

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    BoE says negative interest rates are ‘under review’ for first time

    Andrew Bailey, central bank governor, makes U-turn on position just a week ago

  • Monday, 18 May, 2020
    ExplainerCharts that Matter
    Investors test central banks’ stance on negative rates

    Money-market contracts imply slip below zero in the UK and US

  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2020
    UK economic growth
    Bank of England policy report: What to look out for

    Forecasts will be most thorough assessment yet of how lockdown is affecting the economy

  • Sunday, 3 May, 2020
    ExplainerMarket Questions
    Will the Bank of England announce more QE?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    Premium Bonds rate reprieve for savers

    NS&I scraps planned cuts to prize fund rate 

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Stock market crashes: lessons from history

    The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

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