{"id":75065,"date":"2025-05-09T06:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75065"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:07:31","slug":"uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"UK interest rates fall to 4.25% as Bank of England announces a quarter-point cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EoqAl.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The widely expected cut by the MPC, its fourth cut since last August, should lead to cheaper mortgages for homeowners. Photograph: Maureen McLean\/Rex\/Shutterstock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bank of England policymakers have cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25% to cushion the UK economy against the impact of rising economic uncertainty.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut\/ar-AA1EozTW?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=962d77ff15184bb4af9fa02a217f5b91&amp;ei=46\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Bank of England policymakers have cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25% to cushion the UK economy against the impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/interest-rate.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75066,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065\/revisions\/75066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}