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UK Economy - BOE Policy Interest Rate

Geoff Riley

10th March 2011

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What is the base interest rate currently in the UK economy? How does the current base rate compare with recent years and further back?

This interactive chart courtesy of our friends at Timetric updates within 15 minutes of the interest rate decision made by the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee - bookmark this blog page so your students always have access to the latest data. And if you scroll down to the bottom of the blog entry you will see a listing of many of our new Timetric charts - updated as we add more to the range.

Here is the chart:

Data from Timetric.

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Bank of England base rate, monthly, UK from Timetric

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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