Last week the rate was cut from 4.75% to 4.5% with the prevailing wisdom suggesting that the threat of a return to higher inflation deterred the MPC from agreeing a large cut.

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At 4.5 per cent, the bank rate is well above most estimates of the so-called neutral rate, the point at which monetary policy is neither expansionary nor contractionary. Inflation is close to target, ...

Catherine Mann, a member of the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, insisted a predicted rise in prices would likely just ...

Catherine Mann has said her decision to vote last week for a larger rate cut than most fellow members of the Bank of ...

In a speech delivered in Leeds, Mann explained that the persistence of "embedded inflationary behaviours" had diminished due ...

A member of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee has made a case for a steeper cut to interest rates on expectations that an inflation hump ahead will be temporary.

Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said on Tuesday that her unexpected vote for a half percentage-point cut in ...

Catherine L. Mann on Thursday surprised investors by voting to lower the key interest rate by half of a percentage point, a larger move than that favored by the majority. Mann had on a number of ...

Mann was one of two members of the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee who last week voted for a half-point cut in interest rates ...

The Bank of England should continue to restrain economic activity to ensure that households and businesses don’t act in ways ...