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Market forecasts steep UK slowdown resulting in rate cut
Published Fri, Jul 29, 2016 · 09:50 PM
London
PRELIMINARY surveys indicating that the UK economy is slowing down sharply point to a cut in interest rates and possible quantitative easing (QE) next week, predict economists and market participants.
As a result, sterling weakened against the US dollar and euro and 10-year gilt (government bond) yields tumbled to a multi- year low of only 0.72 per cent, compared with 1.93 per cent a year ago.
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