{"id":79646,"date":"2025-09-18T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79646"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:23:11","slug":"bank-of-england-holds-interest-rates-at-4-and-slows-scheme-to-sell-stock-of-uk-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/bank-of-england-holds-interest-rates-at-4-and-slows-scheme-to-sell-stock-of-uk-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England holds interest rates at 4% and slows scheme to sell stock of UK bonds"},"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\/AA1MO4jJ.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The MPC voted to leave borrowing costs unchanged, after five cuts since summer 2024, including one this August. Photograph: Laura Rose Whereatt\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England has left interest rates on hold at 4% and will slow the pace of its \u201cquantitative tightening\u201d programme in the year ahead to avoid distorting jittery bond markets that set the cost of government debt.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/bank-of-england-holds-interest-rates-at-4-and-slows-scheme-to-sell-stock-of-uk-bonds\/ar-AA1MOdXR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68cc0f3a212c4ccebce9cec734a3bd46&amp;ei=38\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The Bank of England has left interest rates on hold at 4% and will slow the pace of its \u201cquantitative tightening\u201d programme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bank-of-England-London.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79646","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=79646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79647,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79646\/revisions\/79647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}