Rates too low, Bank deputy says
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UK interest rates are too low and are driving demand for credit, the Bank of England's deputy governor says.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in yesterday's auction to the lowest levels since early October.
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Mortgage rates edged lower as a weak employment report pointed to a softer economy, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.
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Mortgage applications barely advanced last week even as interest rates sank to their lowest levels since May, an industry group said on Wednesday, largely reflecting the increasing difficulty borrowers face to obtain a loan as banks tighten lending standards.
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U.S. interest rates may not be high enough to quell a recent bout of inflation, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser said on Thursday.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling criticised banks and financial institutions for lending money too freely to customers who might be unable to pay the loan back, in an interview published Thursday.
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Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week to their lowest levels since January, according to a report released today, but the chief economist for government-backed mortgage company Freddie Mac said rates may soon be heading back up.
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Business & money: Bank of England's governor wanted to raise rates to 5.75% this month but was out-voted, monetary policy committee minutes show.
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee  - St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole said on Friday that inflation must be kept under wraps, but if both growth and price pressures were sufficiently weak, he would back a reduction in U.S. interest rates.
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Mortgage applications barely advanced  last week even as interest rates sank to their lowest levels  since May, an industry group said on Wednesday, largely  reflecting the increasing difficulty borrowers face to obtain a  loan as banks tighten lending standards.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in yesterday's auction to the lowest levels since mid-October.
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The Bank of England left its key interest rate at 5.75 percent on Thursday and said it was &quot;too soon&quot; to judge the full economic disruption of the ongoing global credit squeeze.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in auction yesterday to the lowest levels in more than a year.
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Payrolls shrank in August for the first time in four years, the government reported on Friday, prompting calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates before credit market turmoil drags the economy into recession.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in auction yesterday to the lowest levels in two weeks.
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Payrolls shrank in August for the first time in four years, the Labor Department reported on Friday, prompting calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates before credit market turmoil drags the economy into recession.
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The Bank of England is considering making explicit interest rate forecasts, the bank's Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy Rachel Lomax said in a speech on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported.