This will mean that the base rate will have been at an all time low for a full year, to try and boost growth in the economy. It is believed that the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will take a very cautious decision, due to the fact that in February news of Britain was out of recession.

The MPC are also likely to announce quantitative easing programme will remain on hold. The programme pumped in over 200bn into the economy. The UK economy grew 0.3% in the last three months. Because of the end of stamp duty tax holiday and the icy conditions led to a fall in house prices.

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They are also offering and a two year tracker deal, available from 2.78 per cent up to 70 per cent LTV. Existing borrowers moving home can borrow up to 95 per cent LTV is a good start from Nationwide however new customers this is restricted to 85%.

There are also some good remortgage deals, mortgage director at Nationwide Andy McQueen said “We are making 19 individual rate cuts of up to 0.31 per cent on some of our house purchase and remortgage products. This, together with the special offers we recently announced for first time buyers and house purchasers, will be good news for those trying to get on the housing ladder or secure a new home.”

To see what other rates are available go to introducertoday.co.uk. Do you think banks and building societies should do more for first time buyers? Let us know your thoughts.

Investors now seem braced for signs that it will soon start weaning banks off cheap and abundant liquidity. All off the 78 economists polled by Reuters last week had expected the ECB to leave interest rates at a record low this month. Unicredit economist Marco Valli.said “Rates on hold was a given, we need to look for the news conference to have something more interesting.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve made no change to policy settings on Wednesday despite growing confidence of a recovery. The Bank of England also left its rates untouched, but said it would expand its quantitative easing program by 25 billion pounds as we mentioned in a recent post.

To read more on this story go to reuters.com. Did you expect The European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold at 1.0 %? Let us know your thoughts.

Threadneedle Street announced today that it will leave bank rate at its record low level of 0.5%, where it has been since March. Warning that UK banks are still failing to provide enough credit to businesses and households, the Bank said it would increase the size of quantitative easing (QE) to £200bn.

The Bank’s nine-strong monetary policy committee announced that It is cheap borrowing and QE were needed to prevent inflation falling below its 2% target. A Statement by the bank said: “On balance, the committee believes that the prospect is for slow recovery in the level of economic activity, so that a substantial margin of under-utilised resources persists.”

The output in the UK had dropped by 6% since the start of a recession that has now lasted for six quarters, the longest period of decline since records began in 1955. To read more on this story go to guardian.co.uk.

So it means that first time buyers will benefit from Britain remaining in recession, mainly because Bank Rate will stay low and keep mortgage rates affordable. Martin Gahbauer the Nationwide’s chief economist said “as a result, mortgage affordability will remain relatively favourable for both new and existing borrowers.”

Levels off mortgage take ups are still low, and Nationwide have warned that a large influx of property coming to market, would decrease house prices as supply overtook demand. Melanie Bien of Savills Private Finance, a mortgage broker, has agreed that high demand had helped push house price inflation back into positive territory.

To read more on this story go to telegraph.co.uk. Tell us what you think, do you think it’s the beginning of the end to the recession?

Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president has not ruled out “quantitative easing” but has not made any firm commitment yet. He insists that the European Central Bank Connors’ War divx

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is already been providing unlimited liquidity, as well as trying to push commercial banks to start lending more.

The Euro rate is still a full 1% higher than the UK rate, but Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, has not ruled out any further cuts this year. He said, “I do not exclude that interest rates could go down but we see a number of drawbacks associated with a zero rate level.”

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The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is almost certain to cut interest rates by half a point, taking the rate to an historic 0.5 per cent. The focus of the day is the Bank of England’s plans to inject more money directly into the economy, known as quantitative easing.

The cost of borrowing has come down dramatically over the past few months, and has little or no effect so desperate measure is now needed. Adding new money to the economy will hopefully help banks to start borrowing money to business, which should hopefully kick start the economy. The fear is that in 18 months time inflation will rise to around 6 per cent.

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Advisors are now telling their customers that they should lock in rates right now, as they are as low as they will go. On top of this news, Halifax (HX) has took everyone by surprise and stated that January 2009 has seen house prices rise by 1.9% for the first time in almost a year.

How affective this interest rate cut will be depends on what RBS/Natwest, Abbey (LON:ANLA), Barclays (BARC), Halifax and many other banks do for their customers. Will they pass on this saving to them?

In December Halifax only cuts its SVR by 0.25 percent, which was less than what the BOE cut. Consumers need the full benefit of this rate cut and it’s hoped that this time most borrows get to see the full 0.5% rate cut.

Many feel that the time to buy property is now, it has just increased for the first time in almost a year and the rates are as low as they will go. The perfect time for getting a fixed rate, do you agree?

The house price increase is a good thing but we have a long way to go before we hit the bottom and it may be well into this year before we start to see a turn around. At the time of writing HSBC has just said that it will cut fixed rates and its SVR, but its not yet known how much.Star Trek: Generations full

The Bank of England is expected to announce another interest rate cut today even after many months of cuts already. The big question is not if they will pass a base rate cut but more about how much it will be?

While many of us without savings would love to see a zero interest rate, this is very unlikely and what most analysts expect is the BOE to cuts rates from 1.5% to 1%.

The recession is showing no signs of slowing down and a rate cut may help, although the banks will need to pass this rate cut on for the people to get it’s full benefit.

Some business groups claim that the rate cut has not helped so far, even though millions of homes have seen their mortgage payments drop by hundreds of pounds.

One thing is for sure; the BOE needs to do more to help restore lending levels. The current rate is the lowest in the Bank’s 315-year history and currently it’s not enough to turn things around. What do you think is needed?

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David Blanchflower was the only member who voted against the half point rate cut, he had called for a full one point cut. He said that it was “becoming increasingly probable” that we will be entering into a deep and prolonged recession.

Borrowing is now at an all time low, just 1.5 per cent, and there are still fears that this rate cut is not enough. It is now expected that the rate will fall another half point when the Bank of England members meet next month, and could stay at that level for the rest of the year.

Scott Reid, Deputy Business Editor of business.scotsman.com has said, “It is far from inconceivable that interest rates could come all the way down to zero.” If this were to happen then the Bank of England

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