{"id":125630,"title":"Bank of England Poised to Cut Interest Rates Tomorrow","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2025-08-06T09:35:03+00:00","modified":"2025-08-06T09:35:03+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/bank-of-england-poised-to-cut-interest-rates-tomorrow/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/bank-of-england-poised-to-cut-interest-rates-tomorrow.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/bank-of-england-poised-to-cut-interest-rates-tomorrow.json","category":"B2B","categories":["B2B","Blogs","Business & Support Services","Technology","Technology, Media & Telecoms"],"tags":["Bank of America","Bank of England","banking","BARC","Barclays","Benchmark","BoE","buyback","Chancellor","childcare","CME Group","consumers","Coverage","CS Venkatakrishnan","Deutsche Bank","domestic","energy bill","England","FCA","Fed","Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation","Federal Reserve","FREE","FTSE 100","FTSE 250","FTSE100","futures","Goldman Sachs","household","HSBC","HSBC Holdings","Inflation","investors","Jeremy Hunt","Legal & General","lending","Lloyds Banking Group","London","MCP","midcap index","Monetary Policy Committee","NatWest Group","Ofgem","pandemic","price cap","Prime Minister","program","Prudential","Qatar","Regulators","Rishi Sunak","SEC","Serious Fraud Office","share","Share Talk","ShareHolders","silicon valley","Silicon Valley Bank","SIVB","SVB","The Bank of England","Traders","Treasury","UK","Underground","USA","Wall Street"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dreamstime_s_15957678-1.jpg?fit=800%2C531&quality=89&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":"**UK Construction Slump Strengthens Case for Interest Rate Cut**\n\nA sharp decline in UK construction activity last month has added further weight to expectations that the Bank of England will cut interest rates at its meeting tomorrow at noon.\n\nMarkets are now pricing in a 95% probability of a 0.25 percentage point cut, bringing the base rate down from 4.25% to 4%, according to City trading this morning.\n\nAndy Burgess, fixed income investment specialist at Insight Investment, commented:\n\n> “The Bank of England is widely expected to cut rates this week in what is likely to be a complex decision, as the MPC weighs weak economic growth, persistent inflation, and an approaching period of fiscal tightening.”\n\nWhile a 0.25% cut is the consensus view, the focus will be on the voting breakdown — particularly whether any Monetary Policy Committee members push for a larger 0.5% reduction or prefer to keep rates steady.\n\nBurgess also noted that the Bank faces a narrow window of opportunity to ease rates ahead of the government’s autumn budget."}