{"id":322689,"date":"2025-12-18T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322689\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:52:08","slug":"bank-of-england-expected-to-cut-interest-rates-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322689\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England expected to cut interest rates &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re live from the Bank of Englandpublished at 11:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ded72972-7fe9-4089-a4a1-f17d165fd4fb.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Michael Race<br \/>Business and economics reporter, at the Bank of England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning from a rainy central London. I&#8217;m at the Bank of England, where the latest decision on interest rates will be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, along with other journalists, I was taken down into the depths of this 300-year-old historic building and locked in a room to hear the latest interest rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;ve been here a few times and I&#8217;m told the nation&#8217;s gold is also kept in a vault underneath my feet &#8211; but, unsurprisingly, I&#8217;ve not had a chance to see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the room, we get a chance to write our copy and ask some questions before sharing the news at 12:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There&#8217;s usually some biscuits on offer &#8211; maybe even a festive mince pie this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">See you on the other side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC journalist Michael Race wearing a black coat as he stands in front of the Bank of England building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03a09327-d19e-4dee-9fff-df62e5e4b17a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re live from the Bank of Englandpublished at 11:40 GMT 11:40 GMT Michael RaceBusiness and economics reporter, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-322689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}