{"id":85078,"date":"2026-02-17T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85078"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:40:07","slug":"what-is-happening-with-interest-rates-and-how-quickly-might-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/what-is-happening-with-interest-rates-and-how-quickly-might-they-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happening with interest rates and how quickly might they fall?"},"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:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/OMVNUW5UDVKY3D5EM3QEIN6CWU.jpg?auth=dc60f79f0d5d3fc35eeeea6abc838d528e0fcc9addd9d6a4d246a7d300a874e2&amp;width=1920&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"A general view of the Bank of England building in London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England will cut interest rates in March, according to a majority of economists in a Reuters poll, and is expected to follow up with a second reduction\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/bank-england-cut-rates-march-timing-further-cuts-unclear-2026-02-16\/\">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>The Bank of England will cut interest rates in March, according to a majority of economists in a Reuters poll, and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85078","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\/08\/interest-rate-cut.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85078","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=85078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85079,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85078\/revisions\/85079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}