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King rounds on Cameron for trying to interfere in quantitative easing Forget sniping with Treasury, Mervyn King's big worry is debt Bank of England warning as the deficit crisis deepens Football fan Mervyn King hits the spot with Matt Le Tissier comparison King denies slow response to the banking crisis

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Key reform call Varley needs to make

16.11.09
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King rounds on Cameron for trying to interfere in quantitative easing

11.11.09
The Bank of England has slapped David Cameron down over his comments that its recession-busting printing money programme will have to stop... more

It's tentative but it's still a step forward

11.11.09
IT'S not only Mervyn King's words - "there is a more buoyant picture looking ahead" - that provide optimism today... more

The Governor and banks too big to fail

21.10.09
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, may not have had a particularly good war during the credit crunch but he may yet win the peace... more

Pound crashes more than 2.5 cents against dollar

24.09.09
Sterling plunged more than two-and-a-half cents against the dollar as nervous investors were again spooked by the Bank of England... more

Pound on a roller-coaster ride as Bank stokes hopes

23.09.09
Sterling fluctuated violently as the Bank of England stoked hopes of “a virtuous upward spiral for the economy” but warned of “false dawns” as the UK pulls out of recession... more

UK recession is over, says Bank as FTSE edges upward

15.09.09
The Bank of England declared the UK recession over a year to the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent the global economy into freefall... more

Is deflation still a threat?

08.09.09
Economic analysis: Has the threat of deflation been overdone? And what should The Bank of England do next, given interest rates were cut to 0.5% and quantitative easing was launched to stave off deflation? ... more

MPC report hits pound

19.08.09
Mervyn King and others wanted to pump an extra £75 billion into the economy sent the pound tumbling today — the third time this month the Bank of England has hit sterling ... more

King under further fire after Bank vote revolt

19.08.09
Bank of England governor Mervyn King was under mounting pressure after it emerged he was defeated in a rare revolt on Threadneedle Street over how to deal with the recession ... more

Leading shares rally after Mervyn King’s recessionary words

12.08.09
Leading shares rallied from opening falls after the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, moved to reassure stock market investors that cheap money would be swilling around the economy for sometime to come... more

Bank says recession pain to worsen

12.08.09
The Bank of England warned that Britain's recession was far from over, with unemployment bound to get worse before it gets better.... more

Sporting Miscellanies

27.07.09
Sir Geoff Hurst was edged out by Gazza on The Weakest Link ... more

Forget sniping with Treasury, Mervyn King's big worry is debt

30.06.09
Mervyn King famously said his ambition as Governor of the Bank of England was to be "boring". In the past few days, he has been anything but... more

Bank of England warning as the deficit crisis deepens

24.06.09
The Bank of England has told the Government to get the public finances back in order after a leading global think-tank painted a bleak picture of the UK economy... more

Football fan Mervyn King hits the spot with Matt Le Tissier comparison

19.06.09
The Governor of the Bank of England has compared himself to Matt Le Tissier, the brilliant but mercurial Southampton footballer... more

Banks hit back at plans for tough regulation overhaul

18.06.09
British banks fought back after a rift emerged between the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor over their future regulation... more

Bank carries on printing to escape the doldrums

09.04.09
The Bank of England stuck to its guns over its dramatic decision to print money to drag the UK out of recession... more

Mervyn is bold enough to speak his mind at last

26.03.09
So what's got into Mervyn King? Months of fuming and frustration at the posturing and point-scoring by politicians finally seem to have got the better of the Bank of England Governor - hence, at last, he has spoken his mind. He can do so in the knowledge his position is nigh impregnable.... more

It's lift-off for gilts as Bank fires up a £75bn rush to buy

05.03.09
The price of Government bonds soared as the Bank of England said it would wade into the gilts market, buying up as much as £75 billion of paper to unlock credit markets by improving the liquidity of a range of financial institutions... more

MPC voted 9-0 for printing more money

18.02.09
Economy: The Bank of England is poised to start printing money to prevent a sustained period of deflation and depression... more

Sterling carries on slumping on prospect of more rate cuts

16.12.08
Economy: Sterling continued its vicious slide against the euro as traders bet a bout of deflation will see further aggressive interest rate cuts next year... more

King denies slow response to the banking crisis

12.11.08
Economy: The Bank of England was today forced to defend its handling of the economic crisis amid widespread criticism that it took too long to cut interest rates.... more

Lenders must fall into line for this gamble to pay off

06.11.08
Suddenly, Mervyn King and his colleagues have gone from making the occasional trim to what a barber refers to as a “number one”... more

Rate cuts forecast on King view inflation is peaking

16.09.08
Interest rates will be slashed to 3.5% from 5%, City economists forecast today, as the Governor of the Bank of England said inflation should fall next year amid fears of a stalling economy... more

Get leaner and fitter to climb out of this hole

29.08.08
The Labour Chancellor of the Seventies, Denis Healey, said that when you are in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging... more

Bank's prices forecast proves just a mite out

14.08.08
The Bank of England looms over the City like a vast cheese-mould, full of economists, who are the mites in the cheese. This is not their best moment... more

Bank of England warns inflation pain to get worse

13.08.08
Governor said he expected the economy to grind to a halt over the next 12 months and did not rule out recession ... more

King calls for billions in bank guarantees

22.07.08
Mervyn King says banks should put "many billions" of pounds into a fund over the next 10 years to compensate customers in case of another Northern Rock collapse... more

Commentary: He's the Governor, so follow his thrifty example

15.07.08
Message from Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England: "I feel your pain. I have turned down a six-figure pay rise, and my salary is only going up by 2.5 per cent. Meanwhile, prices in the shops are going up by something either side of four per cent, depending on which index you believe, and are now set to climb even more steeply. I shall have to economise. PS: So will you."... more

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