{"id":20551,"date":"2011-04-07T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20551"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:23:20","slug":"the-bank-of-england-kept-its-interest-rate-at-a-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/04\/07\/the-bank-of-england-kept-its-interest-rate-at-a-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bank of England Kept Its Interest Rate At A Record Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low as  policy makers focus on the need to aid recovery, according to a  Bloomberg report. The Monetary Policy Committee set the key rate at 0.5%  for the 26th month and left its bond-purchase program at 200 billion  pounds. Policy makers are under pressure to curb inflation that has  soared to more than twice the central bank&#8217;s 2% target. Economists  expect the ECB will announce its first rate increase since July 2008  later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low as policy makers focus on the need to aid recovery, according to a Bloomberg report. The Monetary Policy Committee set the key rate at 0.5% for the 26th month and left its bond-purchase program at 200 billion pounds<\/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-20551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}