Bank holds interest rates and keeps QE on ice

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The Bank of England's monetary policy committee has resisted calls for further quantitative easing and has left its programme of stimulus unchanged, while holding rates.

Following its latest monthly meeting, the MPC said in a statement interest rates remain at the record low level of 0.5%, while QE has been held at £325bn. There had been growing expectations tha...

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