US interest rates held at 5.25%
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US interest rates are kept on hold at 5.25% for the fifth time running, amid signs of "firmer" economic growth.
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US Federal Reserve chiefs boosted short-term interest rates for the fifth time in a row, promising further tightening in 2005 to head off inflation.
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The US Federal Reserve, headed by Alan Greenspan, raises interest rates by 0.25% in a widely anticipated move.
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The Bank of England is widely tipped to keep interest rates on hold at 5.25% on Thursday.
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The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent on Thursday and signaled that it would keep it at that level for some time.
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The Bank of England raised its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75 percent, the fifth increase this year, in an attempt to curb inflation.
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NEW YORK, December 15  - The US Federal Reserve announced yesterday a widely expected quarter point hike in its overnight lending rate, the fifth hike since June this year.
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Bank of England raises interest rates by a quarter point to 5.75%, their highest level for six-and-a-half years.
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Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate Tuesday for the fifth time this year, and indicated they will gradually move rates higher next year to keep inflation under control as the economy expands.
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The central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent and signaled that it would keep it at that level for some time.
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The American central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday raised short-term interest rates for the fifth time in six months. Even with the quarter point increase short-term rates are a still-very-low 2.25 percent.
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The Bank of England held its key interest rate steady at 5 percent on Thursday, a decision that was widely expected.
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0530 GMT - US Treasury prices little changed in Asia as market shifted focus to a policy-setting meeting of US Federal Reserve later in the week, which market expects to raise interest rates by 25 basis points.
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The Federal Reserve on Thursday held  benchmark U.S. interest rates steady at 5.25 percent for an  eighth straight meeting and dropped a description of core  inflation as &quot;elevated.&quot;
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee cuts interest rates to 5.25% from 5.5%.
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The European Central Bank held its key interest rate at 4 percent while the Bank of England cut its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 5.25 percent.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year, confident the U.S. expansion is self-supporting and no longer in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.