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Bank of England to slow bond-selling QT programme and leaves UK interest rates on hold – business live

National Trade News capital-markets note (2026-09-17): Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs The Guardian view on the Bank of England’s £120bn bill: power without… Primary source: original at Guardian Markets (theguardian.com).

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Bank of England to slow bond-selling QT programme and leaves UK interest rates on hold – business live

Newsflash: Britain’s economy has been more productive since Tony Blair’s first election win than previously thought.

A new measure of measuring productivity, just released by the Office for National Statistics, shows that annual productivity growth since 1997 has been stronger than it had estimated in the past.

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