the MPC

If spending suffers unduly, "the MPC would be able to deal with it, " he says.

Her colleague Andrew Sentance, one of the more hawkish members of the MPC, said he was encouraged by recent economic indicators.

The timing and speed of policy changes will not be set by market expectations but by how the MPC sees the balance of risks, he said.

In last week's New Statesman, he said the MPC was "hobbled by groupthink" .

back came the annoyed reply that , since she was not a member of the mpc she could not possibly answer the question.

However, Mr King stressed he was "not looking beyond two years" as a timescale to bring inflation back to the MPC's target.

Two of the nine members of the MPC had already resolved the dilemma in November by voting for a rate cut.

So what's the first high-performance sports car planned to come out of MPC? McLaren says that the MPC will release its first. . .

But UK economic activity is anaemic and public sector cuts could be deflationary, so the MPC has much to argue about.

Some of his colleagues on the MPC see things differently.

Audio adapter cards and CD-ROM drives must be compatible with the MPC standard in order to carry the MPC logo.

The MPC "expects that to be the case this time too" .

One of the MPC members asked: how could this be?

The Multimedia PC (MPC) refers to IBM-compatible PCs that meet minimum specifications, based on those set by the MPC Marketing Council.

The swift turnaround in sterling post the MPC minutes suggests that the market has been wrong-footed.

The MPC is tasked with gathering and collating telescope data on asteroid sightings.

In the European session, the MPC minutes will hold the markets' attention.

Essentially, the MPC is the nerve centre for the E accredited media, providing them with 24-hour support and facilities.

"Overall, this is as clear a signal as we could have expected that the MPC is braced to cut Bank Rate soon and in size, " Walker said.

There is something in that idea, but the MPC's Dr Sentance is not so hasty, and rightly so.

One step the MPC can take is to reduce the base rate when it meets on April 10th.

"The more the government does, the more the MPC can't do, " says Geoffrey Dicks, an economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

One issue the MPC faces is what securities it should buy.

APEv2 was originally developed for the MPC file format (see the APEv2 specification).

But it can only add to pressure on the MPC.

Regulations on the regulation-making procedures of the MPC and the SCMPC;