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Call for 0% UK interest rate after Fed cut

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Call for 0% UK interest rate after Fed cut - Pressure is mounting on the Bank of England to reduce interest rates to zero after the US Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate from 1% to a range between zero and 0.25% last night



Call for 0% UK interest rate after Fed cut  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Pressure is mounting on the Bank of England to reduce interest rates to zero after the US Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate from 1% to a range between zero and 0.25% last night
Jobs bloodbath predicted for new year  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
The country was braced for a 'new year bloodbath' of job losses today after the number of unemployment benefit claims rose above a million for the first time in eight years
Stock market report: Wednesday latest  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
12.00: The response of London shares to the Federal Reserve's move to cut rates was far less enthusiastic than that of their US counterparts
FBI swoops on London loan shark  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
A millionaire London businessman is at the centre of an FBI probe into a loan shark scam that has allegedly duped thousands of people
Sterling slips to new low against the euro  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
The pound tumbled to a record low against the euro today after it was revealed rate-setters considered even larger cuts than the 1% delivered this month
BAA ordered to sell Gatwick and Stansted  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
BAA has been ordered to sell Gatwick and Stansted airports because of its history of poor service to passengers and airlines
Savills' second profit warning in 3 months  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Savills issued its second profits warning in three months as chief Jeremy Helsby warned the bottom of the market was becoming increasingly hard to call
Markets unimpressed by Fed rate cut  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Investors gave a muted response to last night's dramatic cut in US interest rates as fears over the state of the world economy played on their minds
Lloyd's braced for claims after Madoff meltdown  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Insurers in the Lloyd's of London market are bracing themselves for a string of claims stemming the collapse of Bernard Madoff's fund
Pensioners snared by interest rate trap  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Pensioners on low incomes are losing their entitlement to both Pension Credit and Council Tax Benefit because of the savage interest rate cuts
Shock as US interest rates slashed to 0%  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
The US shocked the world last night by slashing interest rates to a historic low: its central bank, the Federal Reserve, set the official rate to between zero and 0.25%
Scarborough and Skipton doubly covered  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Members of Scarborough and Skipton building societies will be doubly covered for savings compensation up following their merger next year
Goldman cuts bonuses as losses hit $2.12bn  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
The once-mighty Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs today crashed to its first quarterly loss as a public company and slashed bonus payments for staff
Mandelson's Royal Mail sell-off  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Foreign firms were vying to buy up large chunks of Royal Mail after it emerged that Lord Mandelson has drafted a £3bn plan to part-privatise the service
Tens of thousands face pension cut in 2009  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Tens of thousands of retired public sector workers will see their income drop by hundreds of pounds because of a pensions blunder
Rewarding savers makes sense  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Ben thinks outside the box  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
They bought a dream, he Madoff with their money  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Siphoning off investment gains  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: Licensed by the OFT...to cheat  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
£7bn taxpayer bail-out for post pensions?  [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
Lord Mandelson is on a collision course with Labour MPs over the future of Royal Mail amid fears that he is preparing to partly privatise it