Bank of England

The Bank of England held back from unleashing further emergency support for the economy today, despite receiving a jolt over the health of the UK's recovery.

The housing market continues to "tread water", Halifax said today, after prices fell for the second month in a row in August.

The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 0.5% today, despite growing pressure for more emergency support to aid the UK's faltering economy.

A further £50 billion was injected into the economy today as the UK struggles to pull out of its double-dip recession and the eurozone debt crisis intensifies.

House prices are showing a "marked improvement" and are likely to remain stable during the second half of this year, a study says today.

The proportion of people planning to take their first step on the property ladder in the coming months has risen to its highest level in at least two-and-a-half years, despite the "minefield" of difficulties they face, a study suggests today.

Britain's banks rode out the latest blow to confidence in the industry today after 15 of the world's biggest institutions were downgraded by Moody's.

The retail prices index (RPI) rate of inflation fell to 3.1% in May compared with 3.5% in April, new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reveal today.

Record low interest rates and multi-billion-pound emergency support measures from the Bank of England are costing savers nearly £18 billion a year, research showed today.

Plans for a multi-billion pound emergency bank funding scheme to kick-start lending to households and businesses have been unveiled.