Can I watch the BoE rate announcement live online somewhere
Can I watch the BoE rate announcement live online somewhere
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digger_R

Original Poster:

1,809 posts

235 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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I'm not in the Uk so any location based streams won't work here

thanks

munky

5,328 posts

277 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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1.5%

Shadytree

8,291 posts

278 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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BOE cut interest base rates by 0.5% from 2% to 1.5%

Expected

ACEparts_com

3,724 posts

270 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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wkers

Shadytree

8,291 posts

278 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Current weekness in Sterling is the reason they only cut 0.5%

rich1231

17,340 posts

289 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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ACEparts_com said:
wkers
For what reason?

Because your expertise in Monetary policy wasnt requested to help them out?

allgonepetetong

1,188 posts

248 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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I'm seeing sterling rally a little against the USD. Does that mean this rate cut is less than the market expected?

Should have sold my USD at 11.2 last week, now at 11.7 bugger.

Is this a bounce, will it fall back to low 11 levels?

RJE1966

568 posts

253 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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allgonepetetong said:
I'm seeing sterling rally a little against the USD. Does that mean this rate cut is less than the market expected?

Should have sold my USD at 11.2 last week, now at 11.7 bugger.

Is this a bounce, will it fall back to low 11 levels?
Market expected a bit more, so this was already factored in (according to Bloomberg yesterday) a modest bounce as a result.

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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A rate freeze would have sent out the correct message IMO(that this is as low as it gets). Now everyone will fully expect another 0.5% next month. FFS.