British Inflation

clipped from http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/08/interestrates.interestrates

Interest rates held at 5%

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• Ashley Seager, economics correspondent
• guardian.co.uk,
• Thursday May 8 2008
• Article history

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The Bank of England today held interest rates steady at 5% as it decided that inflationary risks were too great to allow it to cut borrowing costs to boost the flagging economy.

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