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Article: Interest rates likely to stay at same level
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- January 9, 2003
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee is today expected
to announce it will keep interest rates at four per cent.
The body responsible for setting rates started deliberations
yesterday which were due to conclude today into whether or not it
would benefit the economy to slash rates below the current level.
The smart money appears to be on a rates freeze but the slowing
housing market, poor Christmas retail figures and the threat of war
with Iraq are laying heavy on UK ...