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• UK – BoE considers its options

  Date: 2 February 2010
  Author: Samra Al-Harthy, Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  ...Evidence that quantitative easing is working is patchy, but BoE likely to pause at GBP 200bn • Economic upswing is feeble so far...

• Eurozone and UK – BoE leads, ECB follows

  Date: 8 May 2009
  Author: Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  The ECB will embark on asset purchases; the BOE is stepping up its programme But the ECB approach will differ in...

• UK – BoE turns on the taps

  Date: 5 March 2009
  Author: Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  • The Bank of England is embarking on quantitative easing. Bank Rate has troughed • QE and other government measures will tackle the problem of credit availability • Will it work? Watch money supply, risk spreads and spending indicators

• UK – BoE struggling to reflate the economy

  Date: 12 February 2009
  Author: Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  

  The Bank of England now expects a severe recession in H109; then a bounce-back Stimulus measures will help, but we see only a feeble pick-up by end-09 Rates should fall further, then stay low through 2010 on prolonged weak inflation

• UK – BoE sanguine on upcoming inflation spike

  Date: 11 November 2009
  Author: Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  • Inflation will jump in Q1-2010 as the VAT rate cut is reversed and on higher petrol prices • But the Bank of England’s Inflation Report sees inflation below target for much of 2010-11 • Cautious tone on the economy prevails, despite forecasting above-trend growth by H2-2010

• UK – BoE making up lost time

  Date: 6 November 2008
  Author: Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  • UK rates have been held too high for too long; today’s cut helps redress the balance • Aggressive action is needed to avert a severe, 1980s-style, economic contraction • We expect rates to fall to 1% by Spring 2009

• Europe – Liquinflation

  Date: 14 October 2009
  Author: Christophe Duval-Kieffer
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Fixed Income
  

  ...in Europe and the UK as it is in the US • The BoE should retain a more accommodative bias for longer than other central banks...

• UK – Jury still out on quantitative easing

  Date: 9 July 2009
  Author: Samra Al-Harthy, Sarah Hewin
  Region: Europe
  Categories: Economics
  

  ...BoE on track for GBP 125bn in bond purchases; will do more if...

• FX Daily – Focus on interest rates

  Date: 5 March 2009
  Author: Alvin Liew, Manik Narain, Priyanka Chakravarty, Robert Minikin
  Region: Global Overview
  Categories: Foreign Exchange
  

  We expect ECB and BoE to cut interest rates 50bps to 1.50% and 0.50%, respectively...

• FX Daily – Focus on interest rates

  Date: 5 March 2009
  Author: Manik Narain, Priyanka Chakravarty, Robert Minikin, Thomas Harr
  Region: Global Overview
  

  We expect ECB and BoE to cut interest rates 50bps to 1.50% and 0.50%, respectively...