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Image for UK midcaps at over 2-month lows after BoE hikes interest rates
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UK midcaps at over 2-month lows after BoE hikes interest rates

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -UK shares fell on Thursday, with the midcap index touching the lo...

22nd September, 2022

Image for UK gilts suffer biggest collapse since March 2020 meltdown
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UK gilts suffer biggest collapse since March 2020 meltdown

LONDON (Reuters) – British government bond prices plunged on Thursday in their biggest daily drop si...

22nd September, 2022

Image for Bank of England raises rates to 2.25%, despite likely recession
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Bank of England raises rates to 2.25%, despite likely recession

By David Milliken and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest...

22nd September, 2022

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Bank of England hikes rates by 50 bps as economy slows

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest rate to 2.25% from 1.75% on Thursday...

22nd September, 2022

Image for Sterling pulls off 37-year low as a slew of central banks hike rates
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Sterling pulls off 37-year low as a slew of central banks hike rates

By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling rose, after slipping to a fresh 37-year low, against a we...

22nd September, 2022

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Fed delivers another big rate hike; Powell vows to ‘keep at it’

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell vowed o...

22nd September, 2022

Image for Analysis-Europe says goodbye to negative rates – or just ‘au revoir’?
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Analysis-Europe says goodbye to negative rates – or just ‘au revoir’?

By Mark John and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s decade-long experiment with negative i...

22nd September, 2022

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Czech central bank vice-gov unlikely to vote for rate cut  newspaper

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech National Bank Vice-Governor Eva Zamrazilova is not likely to vote for a rat...

22nd September, 2022

Image for Bank of England set for second hefty rate rise in a row
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Bank of England set for second hefty rate rise in a row

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England looks set to raise interest rates by at lea...

22nd September, 2022

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UK manufacturers gloomy about near-term outlook – CBI

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British manufacturers expect the biggest drop in production sinc...

21st September, 2022

Image for Putin speech sends sterling to fresh 37-year low ahead of Fed, BoE meetings
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Putin speech sends sterling to fresh 37-year low ahead of Fed, BoE meetings

By Lucy Raitano LONDON (Reuters) – The pound touched a new 37-year low against the dollar on Wednesd...

21st September, 2022

Image for Oil stocks lift London’s FTSE 100 amid Russia angst as Fed looms
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Oil stocks lift London’s FTSE 100 amid Russia angst as Fed looms

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -UK’s commodity-heavy FTSE 100 reversed early losses on Wednesday,...

21st September, 2022