{"id":40941,"date":"2025-05-08T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:14","slug":"uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"UK interest rates fall to 4.25% as Bank of England announces a quarter-point cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows run of downbeat economic data and looks to cushion UK from Trump\u2019s trade war fallout<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/08\/uk-interest-rate-cut-mortgages-savings-bank-of-england\">Explainer: what does it mean for mortgages and savings?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/08\/mood-boosting-rate-cut-is-a-fillip-for-reeves-but-leaves-future-uncertain\">Analysis: mood-boosting rate cut is a fillip for Reeves but leaves future uncertain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/may\/08\/bank-of-england-interest-rate-decision-cut-trade-war-pound-ftse-house-price-next-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bank of England policymakers have cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25% to cushion the UK economy against the impact of Donald Trump\u2019s trade war.<\/p>\n<p>The widely expected move from the Bank\u2019s monetary policy committee (MPC), its fourth cut since last August, also carried a warning that the UK economy would slow by a further 0.3% over the next two years in addition to dramatic cuts to its forecasts earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/08\/uk-interest-rates-cut-bank-of-england-uk-economy-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows run of downbeat economic data and looks to cushion UK from Trump\u2019s trade war fallout Explainer: what does it mean for mortgages and savings? Analysis: mood-boosting rate cut is a fillip for Reeves but leaves future uncertain Business live \u2013 latest updates Bank of England policymakers have cut interest rates by a quarter &#8230; <a title=\"UK interest rates fall to 4.25% as Bank of England announces a quarter-point cut\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/uk-interest-rates-fall-to-4-25-as-bank-of-england-announces-a-quarter-point-cut\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK interest rates fall to 4.25% as Bank of England announces a quarter-point cut\">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-40941","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\/40941","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=40941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}