UK entered recession in July - King

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The UK economy "very likely" entered a recession in July, the Bank of England says, sparked partly by a banking crisis it calls the "worst since the outbreak of the First World War".

In it quarterly inflation report, the Bank says the downward revision in its inflation outlook is the largest in a single quarter since the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was set up. It now predicts inflation will fall to 1% by 2010, way below its 2% target, pointing out the economic landscape “has changed” since its last report in August. "There has been a marked deterioration in the outlook for domestic and global economic activity,” the report reads. “Instability in banking and financial markets intensified to levels not seen for almost a century. “And, in the United Kingdom, offi...

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