BOE leaves interest rates and QE unchanged via ForexLive

• bank rate 0.5%
• QE 375bln

As expected

Now we wait to see the real story behind the scenes with the release of the  Minutes on Feb 18

GBPUSD uchanged at 1.5242 EURGBP back below 0.7500 having completed its round trip to 0.7510

 The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 billion.

The Committee's latest inflation and output projections will appear in the Inflation Report to be published at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday 12 February.

The minutes of the meeting will be published at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday 18 February.

Notes to Editors

The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009.  A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009.  The previous change in the size of that programme was an increase of £50 billion to a total of £375 billion on 5 July 2012.

Information on the Asset Purchase Facility can be found on the Bank of England website at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/default.aspx.

The Bank will continue to offer to purchase high-quality private sector assets on behalf of the Treasury, financed by the issue of Treasury bills, in line with the arrangements announced on 29 January 2009 and 29 November 2011.

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