<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d650ee37-a361-4275-b72f-ca1603ae761c/409B9E17-37A9-4244-A9A9-695F3D10C8F3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html" href="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fxstreet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html"><H3>Rate decision due at 1200 BST</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html"><P> All analysts surveyed expect the BOE to keep rates on hold at 0.5% for a 7th successive month. Any change in monetary policy or QE is more likely next month as the MPC will be armed with the latest economic forecasts due to be released in the November quarterly inflation report.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html"><P> <STRONG>Growth/Activity:</STRONG> Economic data over the course of the last month has been decent, with GDP figures showing the economy shrank 0.6% in Q2 vs. Prev. -0.7% and Services PMI expanded for a fifth straight month in September and at the fastest pace in two years, while the CBI Distributive Trades survey showed high street sales were picking up. Moreover, Nationwide data revealed house prices increased 0.9% M/M, marking a fifth consecutive increase, but still some 13% off the autumn 2007 peak. However, industrial and manufacturing production are still under pressure, with the latter falling to a 17 year low recently.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/interest-rates/boe-preview-october-interest-rate-decision/2009-10-08.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Keep rates on hold; stay in ‘wait and see’ mode;</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/409B9E17-37A9-4244-A9A9-695F3D10C8F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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