{"id":7872,"date":"2024-02-01T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:21:27","slug":"bank-of-england-holds-rates-steady-at-5-25-as-inflation-concerns-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/bank-of-england-holds-rates-steady-at-5-25-as-inflation-concerns-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bank of England holds rates steady at 5.25% as inflation concerns persist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-p1\">So interest rates are staying up here, and, as importantly for us, our investments and the rest of the world\u2019s economies, in the US as well. Accentuating the positive, they haven\u2019t gone up and consensus is that they have peaked and may well start to come down at some point this year. In an election year governments. Must, I\u2019m sure, rue the day that they gave away control of interest-rate-setting to their central banks (the Bank of England and the Fed), as bringing them down would be an easy feel-good bribe, and blow the long-term effects. On that note, J Hunt seems to be saying that tax cuts are \u2018unlikely\u2019. He\u2019s apparently \u2018managing expectations\u2019, which, given how much we actually need to be spending on so many things which don\u2019t involve bombing and shooting people, is a good thing. I\u2019d say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio-adviser.com\/bank-of-england-holds-rates-steady-at-5-25-as-inflation-concerns-persist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So interest rates are staying up here, and, as importantly for us, our investments and the rest of the world\u2019s economies, in the US as well. Accentuating the positive, they haven\u2019t gone up and consensus is that they have peaked and may well start to come down at some point this year. In an election year governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,31],"tags":[36,94,1034],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}