LONDON (ICIS)--The Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday held its key interest rate at 0.5% and quantitative easing (QE) levels at £375bn in the run-up to the referendum on 23 June in which the UK will decide the future of its EU membership. Interest rates in the UK have been unchanged since 2008, following a series of cuts to the Bank of England’s key benchmark that year, from 5.5% to the current 0.5%.
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