Thursday, June 7, 2007

U.K. Pound Heads for Weekly Drop as BOE Keeps Main Interest Rates on Hold

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. pound headed for a weekly
drop against the dollar after the Bank of England kept its
interest rates unchanged at its monthly meeting yesterday.

The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor
Mervyn King, kept the Bank Rate at 5.5 percent, as predicted by
58 of 62 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. The pound has
benefited from four interest-rate increases in the past year and
inflation that touched a decade-high of 3.1 percent.


Read more at Bloomberg Currencies News

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