Bank of England leaves interest rates and QE unchanged

As very much expected

• bank rate +0.5%
• QE £375bln

No statement but we're used to that now too after Carney surprised us first time out of the blocks

GBPUSD 1.5372 EURGBP 0.7185

Next point of interest is the release of Minutes on 22 July

"The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting on 8 July voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 billion.

The minutes of the meeting will be published at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday 22 July.
The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009. A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous change in the size of that programme was an increase of £50 billion to a total of £375 billion on 5 July 2012.

Information on the Asset Purchase Facility can be found on the Bank of England website at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/default.aspx.

The Bank will continue to offer to purchase high-quality private sector assets on behalf of the Treasury, financed by the issue of Treasury bills, in line with the arrangements announced on 29 January 2009 and 29 November 2011."