Super Thursday: Bank of England votes 8-1 to hold interest rates
by Heather Stewart from on (#GKN9)
City analysts push prospect of a rate rise into 2016 as only one MPC member votes for an increase
Fears that the Bank of England is poised to start raising interest rates have receded, after news that just one of the nine members of its policy committee voted to increase borrowing costs from their record low of 0.5% this month.
City analysts pushed their forecasts for the first rate rise since 2007 into next year after the Bank revealed that Ian McCafferty, former chief economist at business group the CBI, cast the sole vote for higher rates when the monetary policy committee met on Wednesday.
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