{"id":30103,"date":"2012-06-07T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/boe-keeps-rate-asset-purchase-programme-unchanged\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:22:00","slug":"boe-keeps-rate-asset-purchase-programme-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/07\/boe-keeps-rate-asset-purchase-programme-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"BOE keeps rate, asset purchase programme unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The Bank of England kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent and the target for asset purchases at 325 billion pounds, despite a contraction of Britain&#39;s economy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>  \u00a0 \u00a0 The BOE&#39;s official interest rate that it pays on commercial bank deposits has been unchanged at 0.5 percent since March, 2009 when it also began a policy of quantitative easing. On February 9, 2012, the UK central bank increased the asset purchase programme by 50 billion pounds to 325 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-7608073927366033411?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News \u00a0 \u00a0 The Bank of England kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent and the target for asset purchases at 325 billion pounds, despite a contraction of Britain&#39;s economy. \u00a0 \u00a0 The BOE&#39;s official interest rate that it pays on commercial bank deposits has been unchanged at 0.5 percent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/07\/boe-keeps-rate-asset-purchase-programme-unchanged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOE keeps rate, asset purchase programme unchanged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}