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    Bank Of England Due To Announce More QE

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    The Bank of England is expected to unleash another multi-billion round of emergency support for the UK economy today.

    Despite signs that the UK's financial health may be starting to improve, the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC (KOSDAQ: 050540.KQ - news) ) is forecast to take fresh action.

    Analysts believe it will extend its quantitative easing (QE) programme by another £50bn, taking the total to £325bn, in a bid to stave off a double-dip recession.

    The Bank will announce its plans at midday, and is also expected to keep interest rates at their record low of 0.5%.

    The current programme of asset purchases was due to be completed early this month.

    The negative growth figures for the final three months of 2011 intensified the pressure on the BoE to inject further cash into the ailing economy.

    But recent, more positive data from the UK services industry and other business surveys showing stronger than expected confidence have made it a closer call.

    Nevertheless, all five money Sky News money panel members anticipate additional QE to be announced at the MPC meeting.

    Both RBS UK economist Ross Walker and Metro Bank chair Anthony Thomson expect a £50bn increase.

    Mr Walker said: "The BoE's policy reaction function continues to betray a downside/activist bias: if in doubt, loosen policy.

    "In the event that any further easing proved to have been the wrong move, the Bank could easily rectify this. The prospects of any change in Bank Rate remain fairly remote."

    James Daley, editor of Which? Money, expects the cash boost to be "relatively modest" and for interest rates not change until 2013 at the earliest.

    Louise George, founder of Peter Popple's Popcorn (KOSDAQ: 043680.KQ - news) , said a further round of QE would probably be raised after recent data showed "a contraction in the money supply and weak borrowing by companies and households".

    The jury was out among the panellists as to whether or not the UK would go back into recession - two quarters of negative growth - following the recent GDP figures.

    Mr Daley said: "Although it's quite possible that Britain will slip back into recession, it seems unlikely that this second dip will be as deep or protracted as the first.

    "The game changer, however, is the euro. If the eurozone cannot come up with a solution to the debt crisis, the impact on the UK will be significant."

    Mr Thomson and Ms George were more positive.

    "I think the recovery is fragile, but it will be a recovery nonetheless. I think we will see real growth, albeit small, this year," Mr Thomson said.

    Ms George added: "At this stage it seems there will be very limited growth but not a double dip recession and growth is likely to be stronger than the other European countries."

    Mr Walker summed up: "None of this should suggest the UK is about to have a stellar year. It isn't. Growth will be weak - we forecast expansion of just 0.8% - but that is meaningfully better than recession."

    The panel members also gave their views on wider economic policy following the recent political furore over executive pay and bonuses.

    Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of communications services group WPP (LSE: WPP.L - news) , said "We just have to face the fact that bashing bankers, bonuses and business works currently at the ballot box."

    He urged businesses to "communicate to command their share of the voice", stressing that growth means jobs, Government revenue and help in areas of technology,education and infrastructure.

    But Ms George added: "There has been a lot of scrutiny on banks and bonuses recently but the Government is in the process of implementing good policies in order to help strengthen the economy, in a better way than their European counterparts."

     

    14 comments

    • phillip  •  3 months ago
      2012 is going to be the year of BIGTIME Quantitative Easing......they (Central Banks) will pump more and more money into not only the UK....(BOE is our Central bank) ....but the USA and Europe will also have Mega Q.E'ing from the Federal Reserve and the ECB .....these 3 Ponzi Schemes need propped up none are in good shape, all Ponzi schemes collapse eventually..
    • JEAN HISLOP  •  3 months ago
      Using QE to buy Government bonds is only storing up trouble for later.
    • NJ-ORANGE  •  3 months ago
      If Quantative Easing actually boosts growth in any way it is artificial and the growth promptly stops as soon as it is withdrawn, and as one presumes it can't go on to infinity and beyond so it should be dismantled and abandoned.
    • NJ-ORANGE  •  3 months ago
      Quantative Easing has already proved to be the wrong move, Nobody has ever said before it can be easily rectified, please rectify it now claim back the £275 billion, that amount of money could fund a VAT holiday for 3 Years,
      • PJ1961 3 months ago
        King and his men are good at getting it wrong! The full impact of the last lot of QE hasn't filtered through and there are signs that the British economy is slowly improving. The MPC miss every target and never get a forecast right. Their record would be laughable if it hadn't been so damaging for the economy.
    • Robert  •  Mumbai, India  •  3 months ago
      This is a rubbish policy, money lent into banks who then use it increase their reserves, then sit on their hands and lend to no one. This policy has not created jobs at all which is the issue, where is the data which shows how many jobs have been created for the money given to the banks. Are our politicians blind, they should not continue to side step responcibility by hoping the banks have the answer. We need massive job creation schemes, the only answer is to give ordinary people jobs.
    • boatman  •  3 months ago
      need to bypass the banks and get money direct to industry
    • NJ-ORANGE  •  3 months ago
      Pay and other income Rising faster than inflation drives growth, Raising Interest rates improves confidence, gives income back to savers that they can actually go out and spend in the economy, which creates demand, etc. etc.
    • PETER  •  Reading, England  •  3 months ago
      QE is a method of putting more money back into the economy to counter act the government over taxing the people. Once sorted they can continue to fleece us.
    • JOSEPH  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      So once again pensioners are targeted. Savings are eroded and annuties are cut again. And Governments continue to tell us to save for our future. What is the point?
    • Henry Goodridge  •  3 months ago
      Printing money to loan to banks to buy UK sovereign debt which is all that seems to happen with QE leads where???.
    • Joe  •  3 months ago
      More QE to subsidise banks and bib business moving billions of untaxed money to offshore accounts,tax loopholes for the rich and obscene wages.Someone is getting very rich.
    • Lawful  •  3 months ago
      50 Billion more DEBT!!! Why? because if you are a meglomaniac Central Banker, you want the whole world in debt to you.

      Every country has a private central bank that prints money out of thin air and loans it to the government at interest making the government tax and fine us in every manner possible to pay back the loan and interest is not something to feel lucky about. If you don't think the government gets it's money from the Bank of England (you may think the goverment spends tax payers money) then how is the government in debt? All governments have a central bank, and all the Central banks; Fed Reserve, Bank of England, ECB, IMF etc are one and the same. Governments around the world borrow money from them and then have to pay it back at interest. This is how our banking system works. All money is debt. Look up fractional reserve banking or fiat currency.

      All money is created from debt, add on the interest charged on any loan, morgage or credit and you now owe more money than has been created (the principal). In a money system based on debt which ours is, there will always be more debt than actual money. Central banks then always have the wealth gradually transferred to them. The Rothschild family is now worth over $500 trillion!! Over 50% of the entire wealth of the planet excluding properties and land!!!

      "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790.

      “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - 1849. Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife.

      ****Anyone want to know why countries are borrowing money to pay their debt?? We all know it doesn't make sense, why don't they?? It DOES make sense if you
      understand the system. All new money in the system is created by debt.

      "Each and every time a bank makes a loan, new bank credit is created -new deposits- brand new money." - Graham F. Towers (Governor, Bank of Canada, 1934-54)

      "That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money." - Marriner S. Eccles (Chairman and Governor of
      the Federal Reserve Board)

      ....so if we all pay off our debts, there wouldn't be any money. If countries tighten their belts and start paying off debt, then .....we are right back in a recession!! We are trapped by the system. They only logical thing they can do, is borrow money. They borrow it, at interest, creating more debt to pay off the earlier debt, but now the money supply is also bigger. Not enough to pay off all the debt, but enough to keep the game going. This is our banking system.

      It has been in place for hundred's of years. This is what America fought the war of indepence for:

      "The inability of the Colonist to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the Prime reason for the revolutionary war." - Benjamin Franklin. Watch "money as debt" on youtube.

      And why 2 U.S. presidents were assassinated, look up Abraham Lincoln and the Bank War or John F Kennedy and Executive Order 11110 or The Bankers Mandate 1892.
    • Lawful  •  3 months ago
      They still want growth? And these guys are our experts?

      An economy based on perpetual growth can't exist on a finite planet. We are seeing our system crumbling before our very eyes like the house of cards it is. Have any of you given any thought to how companies are supposed to produce more and more, they have to hit a wall of either people to buy it (population) or the resources to make their stuff from sooner or later. They already hit a wall a few decades ago, where growth faltered as the products were built to last and people didn't keep having to buy the same product over and over, what did they do? Redesigned them to last just past their guarantee, therefore using an infinite amount of extra resources and producing an infinite amount of extra rubbish to contaminate our planet with, all to keep our "economy" (which is not economic) going. On the 31st Oct they said the world population breached 7 billion. They are now talking about the impending food crisis we are going to have to deal with as there are too many people on the planet and we have cleared all the top soil off our land by killing all the trees which make it. They are already announcing a problem in the mining industry, wages have doubled as they can't find enough people to mine raw minerals quick enough to keep up with demand for the amount needed to keep our economy in growth!! Throw away society indeed.Yahoo also ran an article on 31st Dec about the two biggest oil wells going into decline, peak oil is not running out of oil, it is reaching the peak of how much we can physically pump out of the ground per day, and we have hit it world wide, while china, brazil and india are still industrialising. Pratically everything our economy runs on is oil based. Plastics for computers, clothes (nylon/polyester) make up, medicines, fertilizers are made from natural gas, modern agriculture is basically using oil to convert land into food. Transport, once we can't afford the oil, we face total collapse of our system. As we are now nearly 100% dependant on getting food from supermarkets, what happens when they are empty? Remember the petrol strikes? That was only a week! Growth and fractional reserve banking are the problems. Continuing as normal, back to work, contribute, pay your taxes is not going to change anything.

      The answer is a resource based economy, run by the people for the people. We have superceeded the need for government or rulers, as long as we have rulers we buck our responsability and then blame them when it goes wrong. This is evolution and we need to start evolving while we still have a future to live for. An example of a resource economy is "The Venus Project" search Youtube for -"Imagining a world without money"-. I'm not saying this is the answer, but it can start a new conversation, if we can't imagine living without money, we can never survive. People will say no government and no money is anarchy, but I've been witness to this definition ofanarchy for the last 30 years. We need to find SANITY!!! Anyone know what the real meaning of anarchy is? Mon-archy (mono) one source of governance. An-archy (no) no source of governance, it doesn't mean punks or violence or anything other than, we are all equal and sovereign.No politician or banker will solve our problems, because they are not problem solvers, they are there to make themselves powerful and maintain their positions, as any hierarchy does. Those at the top make sure they remain there. We need to start educating each other and start making our own future as no government will ever do it for us!!!
    • Joe  •  3 months ago
      There is still ONE way to put the world finances back to growth.Please reed ALL of the following.Each country must print say 10% additional money on their currency at the same time so as not to alter exchange rates.Any country not cooperating would find there own currency inflate so much they would find it difficult to export in the resulting trade boom.The new money MUST be used as follows.Half Must be used to reduce debt.The other half of this new money MUST be passed down to pensioners and low paid [the consumers ].The results of this action would include the following.Millions taken out of poverty,countries would have more sustainable debt,banks re capitalised,a stop to public unrest,return of confidence in the markets,world growth,trade boom,massive drop in unemployment,interest rates could again be used to control inflation.To maintain this growth the following must be agreed.Universal rules for banks,a stop to obscene wages[either capped of the use of higher tax bands] a stop to tax loopholes.a stop to untaxed money being moved to offshore tax havens,each country must cut administration costs,stop immigration[even within the EU].Only world cooperation will get us out of this stagnation.There is NO plan B.I would be willing to progress this package with any world leaders..................Joe Dudhill
      • Lawful 3 months ago
        Joe you need to understand the problem then rewrite your plan. Countries do not print money. The Central bank creates money which is a debt for the government. Central Banks are private and not part of the government. So your plan is to have all Central Banks create more debt money for the government to pay off by taxing and fining us. Then with that new debt money you will use half to reduce debt???? Surely you can see this is a ridiculous plan?

        Every country has a private central bank that prints money out of thin air and loans it to the government at interest making the government tax and fine us in every manner possible to pay back the loan and interest is not something to feel lucky about. If you don't think the government gets it's money from the Bank of England (you may think the goverment spends tax payers money) then how is the government in debt? All governments have a central bank, and all the Central banks; Fed Reserve, Bank of England, ECB, IMF etc are one and the same. Governments around the world borrow money from them and then have to pay it back at interest. This is how our banking system works. All money is debt. Look up fractional reserve banking or fiat currency.

        All money is created from debt, add on the interest charged on any loan, morgage or credit and you now owe more money than has been created (the principal). In a money system based on debt which ours is, there will always be more debt than actual money. Central banks then always have the wealth gradually transferred to them. The Rothschild family is now worth over $500 trillion!! Over 50% of the entire wealth of the planet excluding properties and land!!!

        "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790.

        “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - 1849. Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife.

        ****Anyone want to know why countries are borrowing money to pay their debt?? We all know it doesn't make sense, why don't they?? It DOES make sense if you
        understand the system. All new money in the system is created by debt.

        "Each and every time a bank makes a loan, new bank credit is created -new deposits- brand new money." - Graham F. Towers (Governor, Bank of Canada, 1934-54)

        "That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money." - Marriner S. Eccles (Chairman and Governor of
        the Federal Reserve Board)

        ....so if we all pay off our debts, there wouldn't be any money. If countries tighten their belts and start paying off debt, then .....we are right back in a recession!! We are trapped by the system. They only logical thing they can do, is borrow money. They borrow it, at interest, creating more debt to pay off the earlier debt, but now the money supply is also bigger. Not enough to pay off all the debt, but enough to keep the game going. This is our banking system.

        It has been in place for hundred's of years. This is what America fought the war of indepence for:

        "The inability of the Colonist to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the Prime reason for the revolutionary war." - Benjamin Franklin. Watch "money as debt" on youtube.

        And why 2 U.S. presidents were assassinated, look up Abraham Lincoln and the Bank War or John F Kennedy and Executive Order 11110 or The Bankers Mandate 1892.