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City fears hung parliament � but this is no need for a sterling panic

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:42:22 GMT

Economics Analysis: The prospect of a hung parliament for the first time in nearly four decades has sparked talk of a sterling crisis

Curb banks or face worse crisis, warns Mervyn King

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:25:39 GMT

Mervyn King urges officials and politicians to press ahead with vital bank reforms before the next �even bigger� crisis struck

Mervyn King says Bank may still need to print more money

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:49:35 GMT

The Bank of England warns that economic recovery is �fragile� and is ready to print more money to drive growth

Dear Darling... as I predicted, inflation has risen to 3.5%

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:05:12 GMT

Economics Analysis: Mervyn King is happy to wait and see - the Bank is leaving rates at 0.5% and will hold off withdrawing QE

Mervyn King�s uncertainty deserves respect

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:49:34 GMT

City Comment: These days the Bank of England�s Quarterly Inflation report has very little to do with inflation. It is the uncertainties which get in the way that preoccupy us all

Bank of England may start pumping in money again

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:36:19 GMT

Bank of England governor Mervyn King declares it is �far too soon� to say printing money can be stopped for good

Bank of England may resort to printing more money

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:54 GMT

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King says it is �far too soon� to declare it has stopped quantatitive easing for good

Shock jump in inflation is a real poser for Mervyn King

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:48:41 GMT

Economic analysis: "This will not go down well at the Bank of England" - inflation has hit 2.9 per cent, but should the Chancellor expect a call from Mervyn King trying to explain himself?

Bank's next rates decision crucial for economy, warn economists

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:55:16 GMT

Economists warn that next month�s decision on interest rates will be crucial as the Bank of England holds at 0.5 per cent again

Blanchflower�s right: Darling should have a say on monetary policy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:06 GMT

Bank chiefs are blowing hot and cold in battle over inflation

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:09:52 GMT

Economic analysis: Temperatures at the Bank of England are rising over how to drive a recovery in the UK economy without sending inflation soaring

King rounds on Cameron for trying to interfere in quantitative easing

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:27:39 GMT

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

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

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:55:45 GMT

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

The Governor and banks too big to fail

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:04:56 GMT

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

Pound crashes more than 2.5 cents against dollar

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:31:28 GMT

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

Pound on a roller-coaster ride as Bank stokes hopes

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:53:05 GMT

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

UK recession is over, says Bank as FTSE edges upward

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:07:24 GMT

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

Is deflation still a threat?

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:22:55 GMT

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?

MPC report hits pound

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:40:14 GMT

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

King under further fire after Bank vote revolt

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:38:29 GMT

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

Leading shares rally after Mervyn King�s recessionary words

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:08:25 GMT

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

Bank says recession pain to worsen

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:31:37 GMT

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

Sporting Miscellanies

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:52:06 GMT

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

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

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:45:26 GMT

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

Bank of England warning as the deficit crisis deepens

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:27:00 GMT

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

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

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:20:02 GMT

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

Banks hit back at plans for tough regulation overhaul

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:14 GMT

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

Bank carries on printing to escape the doldrums

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:07:08 GMT

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

Mervyn is bold enough to speak his mind at last

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:30:34 GMT

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.

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

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:58:15 GMT

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