{"id":618797,"date":"2026-09-17T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:22:18","slug":"bank-of-england-to-announce-interest-rate-decision-after-first-raise-in-us-for-three-years-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618797\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England to announce interest rate decision, after first raise in US for three years &#8211; live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning from the Bank of Englandpublished at 11:17 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:17 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Dearbail Jordan<br \/>Senior business and economics reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anuk Weerawardana and Dearbail Jordan outside the Bank of England\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/34c451a7-a954-4248-a269-5d67cf93a55f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1380\" height=\"776\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hello from the Bank of England in London, where BBC apprentice Anuk Weerawardana and I will find out if UK interest rates will rise, fall, or stay at 3.75%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll also learn if the Bank is going to reduce or stop selling its massive trove of government bonds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bank will make the announcement at midday &#8211; when BBC News will also publish a news story all about it. How does this happen at the same time? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The secret is journalists get to read the Bank&#8217;s decision an hour or two before its wider release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because this is market sensitive information, the Bank of England locks us in its basement to prevent leaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Theoretically, a trader could make a lucrative bet on the decision if they had prior knowledge. To ensure nothing gets out, we have to hand over our mobiles and the wi-fi is switched off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between now and then, we&#8217;ll read, ruminate and write, fuelled by lots of tea and too many biscuits. By the time 12:00 BST rolls around, the wi-fi is switched on &#8211; and our words wing their way to you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">See you on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning from the Bank of Englandpublished at 11:17 BST 11:17 BST Dearbail JordanSenior business and economics reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-618797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}