Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Bank of England: Lowest Interest Rate in Over 300 Years!

From Marketwatch tonight:

On Thursday, the Bank of England is widely expected to make a landmark statement of its own.
Facing what many economists expect to be the deepest recession since World War II, the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee is seen as virtually certain to drop the central bank's key lending rate to the lowest level since its founding in 1694.

Here is the full story.