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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted 8-1 to hold rates at 0.5%, predicting that inflation would stay below 1% until the second half of next year.

Follows tense semi-annual meeting

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UK manufacturing is suffering a poor end to 2015 amid "gathering gloom" from the global economy, according to industry body the EEF.

Extends QE to at least March 2017

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Standard Chartered were the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders in a Bank of England stress test.

Gold looks set to suffer its biggest drop in price since 2013 amid intense speculation that the US is poised to raise interest rates.

Investors across the globe are holding their breath ahead of December's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, to see if it raises the US interest rates. But is it that big a deal? Potentially. This is why...

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