Interest rates held at 0.5%; QE programme frozen

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The Bank of England has kept interest rates at 0.5% and frozen its quantitative easing programme.

The bank's monetary policy committee voted to maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200bn and said interest rates would remain at 0.5% for the ...

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