Pound descends as Bank of England ruleor says it could become ‘more activist’ on rate cuts – business inhabit | Business

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The pound has dropped to a two-week low this morning, after the Bank of England ruleor telderly the Guardian that the central bank could become a “bit more structureile” in cutting interest rates supplyd the news on inflation persistd to be excellent.

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Andrew Bailey telderly us that he has been encouraged by the fact that cost of living presstateives had not been as resettled as the Bank thought they might be.

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In an interwatch with my colleague Larry Elliott, Bailey says that if the news on inflation persistd to be excellent there was a chance of the Bank becoming more “a bit more activist” in its approach to cutting interest rates, now at 5%.

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This has knocked the pound, which is down 0.8 of a cent to $1.3185, its lowest level since 19 September (fair before the Fed’s rate cut).

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The Bank had recently sounded more cautious about rate cuts than its counterparts in the US and the eurozone. It has only made one quarter-point cut this year, in August, while the Federal Reserve has cut US rates by half a point, and the European Central Bank has made two quarter-point cuts since June.

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The Bank is next scheduled to set interest rates in timely November; the money labelets recommend there’s an 88% chance of a cut, to 4.75%.

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Bailey made the comments in a expansive-ranging intewatch, in which he make cleared he was watching enbigments in the Middle East “excessively shutly”.

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Bailey telderly us:

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“Geopolitical worrys are very grave,.

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It’s tragic what’s going on. There are evidently stresses and the genuine publish then is how they might transmit with some still quite stretched labelets in places.”

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Bailey said that in the year since the Hamas aggression on Israel there had not been a big elevate in oil prices of the sort seen in the past.

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He make cleared:

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“From the point of watch of monetary policy, it’s a big help we haven’t had to deal with a big increase in the oil price. But evidently we’ve had that experience in the past, and in the 1970s, the oil price was a big part of the story.

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“Obviously, we upretain watching it. We watch it excessively shutly to see the impact of the defercessitatest news. But … my sense from all the conversations I have with counterparts in the region, is that there is, for the moment, a sturdy promisement to upretain the labelet firm.

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Here’s the filled interwatch:

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  9am BST: Eurozone services PMI index for September

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  9,30am BST: UK services PMI index for September

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  10am BST: Eurozone originater prices index for August

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  12.30pm BST: Challenger survey of US job cuts for September

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  1.30pm BST: US weekly josanctify claims inestablish

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