{"id":38194,"date":"2025-04-08T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/bank-should-cut-uk-interest-rates-to-at-least-4-in-may-amid-tariff-turmoil\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:17:25","slug":"bank-should-cut-uk-interest-rates-to-at-least-4-in-may-amid-tariff-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/bank-should-cut-uk-interest-rates-to-at-least-4-in-may-amid-tariff-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank \u2018should cut UK interest rates to at least 4% in May amid tariff turmoil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean says cut of 0.5 points needed because of \u2018crazy situation\u2019 in US<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England should use its meeting next month to cut interest rates by at least half a percentage point to 4% in response to the financial turmoil created by Donald Trump\u2019s trade tariffs, the former deputy governor Charlie Bean has said.<\/p>\n<p>He believes an aggressive strategy is needed to combat the fallout from Trump\u2019s tariff war, which has knocked trillions of pounds off global stock markets, undermining business and consumer confidence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/08\/bank-of-england-uk-interest-rates-tariff-turmoil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean says cut of 0.5 points needed because of \u2018crazy situation\u2019 in US The Bank of England should use its meeting next month to cut interest rates by at least half a percentage point to 4% in response to the financial turmoil created by Donald Trump\u2019s trade tariffs, the &#8230; <a title=\"Bank \u2018should cut UK interest rates to at least 4% in May amid tariff turmoil\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/bank-should-cut-uk-interest-rates-to-at-least-4-in-may-amid-tariff-turmoil\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bank \u2018should cut UK interest rates to at least 4% in May amid tariff turmoil\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}