Threadneedle Street

The minutes of the June meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee show that Threadneedle Street is becoming gloomier about the prospects for growth, and fears that raising rates to combat inflationary pressures considered temporary would bash the economy when it is already going down.

Fiscal U-turn would be a tricky manoeuvre 2011

That was the unspoken message from Threadneedle Street following the meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee, which left interest rates on hold at 0.5% and did not announce any further injections of electronic money into the economy.

ECB cuts interest rates as crunch summit begins - Thursday December 8 2011 2011

You don't have to be a believer in seizing the "commanding heights" of the economy to think a government that owns more than 80% of RBS and more than 40% of Lloyds ought to be able to boost lending to businesses – and prevent a credit squeeze from choking off what little economic recovery we have – without turning to Threadneedle Street.

Rubber-stamping Stephen Hester's RBS bonus is no one's idea of 'popular capitalism' 2012

The minutes of the June meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee show that Threadneedle Street is becoming gloomier about the prospects for growth, and fears that raising rates to combat inflationary pressures considered temporary would bash the economy when it is already going down.

Fiscal U-turn would be a tricky manoeuvre 2011

Threadneedle Street's monetary policy committee is expected to keep borrowing costs at their emergency level of 0.5% amid evidence that the economy continues to struggle.

Deficit targets will be missed, George Osborne told 2011

Boodles, and other high-end jewellers, including Bulgari and Theo Fennell, in the historic Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street, are counting on them.

City's bars and retailers gear up for the bonus season 2012

Threadneedle Street has slashed its growth forecast for the UK to just 1% next year, not nearly strong enough to absorb the people coming into the workforce.

David Cameron can't hide betrayal of jobless young behind a No 10 summit 2011

Given that oil and food prices are still spiking up, there will be plenty more missives heading from Threadneedle Street to the Treasury over the next few months.

Inflation: Up, up and away | Editorial 2011

Watering the flowerbeds at the Bank of England building on Threadneedle Street, in the City of London.

We need to reform the Bank of England, not break it | Alistair Darling 2011

The shadow chancellor was closely involved in Brown's decision to grant independence to the Bank, and should have a long think about why Threadneedle Street was initially unable to curb the UK's debt-driven boom, was too slow in its response to the slump of 2008 and is now in danger of losing its anti-inflationary credibility.

Ed Balls has to show voters that Labour would manage the economy better 2011