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Moreover, even if it did dare to cut rates, how much would this assist the economy if long-term rates jumped at the same time?

Tracker rates are likely to continue to gain in popularity amid speculation that the Bank of England may have to cut rates a lot further.

In Britain, the Bank of England is expected to cut rates in the next few days.

While the Bank of Japan did not cut rates, the Fed statement said that the bank supported the actions.

Trichet said the ECB had cut rates as it was "anticipating future bad news that we expect coming from the real economy. "

The Fed is expected to cut rates by a quarter point to 2 percent next week, though markets think that may be the last reduction for a while.

The Bank of Japan cut rates to zero but failed to avoid a long recession.

Lower commodity prices helped for a while, and may help further if they encourage central banks to cut rates.

The bond market is still looking for the Fed to cut rates quite soon, even though the date has slipped back, and expects a series of cuts.

Some economists believe the Rousseff administration pressured the central bank to cut rates prematurely-something the president denies.

Both the Bank of England and the ECB cut rates last month by a half-point.

The central bank could not cut rates below zero, and it did not raise them because inflation was already too low.

Around the world, central banks that have been slower to cut rates than the Fed are rapidly catching up.

The Bank of Japan cut rates to 0 but failed to avoid a long recession.

Private sector is not interested in selling technology at cut rates. The private sector is interested in investment opportunities.

This will add to the war chest of the hawkish faction at the ECB, who are reluctant to cut rates so soon after raising them.

Apart from Japan, with its rock-bottom rates, most Asian central banks have similar leeway to cut rates more.

But the Fed cut rates, and the economy recovered quickly, making the downturn one of the briefest ever.

Buteven if some of these eventually cut rates, they are unlikely wholly to reverse the tightening of conditions just yet.

And with interest rates near zero, the Fed cannot cut rates further to fight deflation.

Countries such as Brazil and Turkey have been able to cut rates during the crisis and still attract money.

Economists say that on the back of weaker prospects for growth, there's now a solid case for the ECB to cut rates.

If he cut rates; the dollar will fall, commodities will spike, and people will starve.

The Fed can't cut rates below zero, but it could achieve the same effect by buying more assets to flood the financial system with cash.

But recent studies have found that providing the pills has failed to cut rates of conception.

After Russia's default and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, the Fed cut rates by a quarter point.

Central banks need to look at their economies afresh and cut rates by at least 1, and ideally2, percentage points.

Financial markets have consistently over estimated the central bank's willingness to cut rates in recent months.

Monetary policy can be loosened: several central banks have cut rates.

Even so, Mr Bernanke did little to challenge the widespread belief that the Fed is primed to cut rates again soon.

Because inflation and interest rates were low when the crisis hit, central banks had little room to cut rates to cushion the economic blow.

Though the economy continues to benefit from low interest rates, the Federal Reserve can't cut rates further.

Merely reducing, not eliminating, these so-called "tax expenditures" would still yield enough revenue to cut rates a lot.

Gave little indication that they were minded to cut rates in the near future.

Two months ago financial markets were sure that the Fed, for all its hawkish talk, would soon cut rates.

In the last 12 years, the Fed has changed course and cut rates sharply on two occasions before this one.

Jan's decision by the monetary policy committee to cut rates by 50 basis points is expected to boost demand further.

As for monetary policy, only Australia has significant room to cut rates this time around.

But the positive market reaction to Thursday's debt plan gives the ECB more time to assess the risk of recession and whether to cut rates.

If prospects seem significantly worse, the Fed will, presumably, cut rates.

When the economy was in most danger, the ECB could have cut rates more quickly.

Meanwhile the market expects the Federal Reserve will cut rates by half a point tomorrow to 1 per cent.

After the crash of October 1987, the Fed cut rates three times in six weeks - and stocks quickly recovered.

That would free the central bank to cut rates.

The assumption that it can cut rates without fear of the consequences is wrong.

The Usd was significantly weaker in the Asian session, as the FOMC cut rates by 75bp to 0. 25% in yesterday's meeting.

Some emerging economies, such as Brazil and Indonesia, have started to cut rates, bracing for Europe's problems to hit them.

This is the paradigm through which he will assess whether to cut rates.

That will make the ECB reluctant to cut rates even if the economy dips into recession.

Federal Reserve officials say they cut rates to 3. 5 percent to ease tight credit.

Concerns about the risk of deflation led Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman until 2006, to cut rates hard in 2001-03 and keep them low.

In the past the Fed has been tooeager to cut rates repeatedly when markets gripe.

Brazil hasn't cut rates faster because it needs to attract money to fund a growing welfare system and infrastructure projects.

In the European session, we expect the Norge Bank to cut rates 50bp to 5. 25%.

Some ECB governing council members wanted to cut rates last month, while others think they can stay at 1. 5 percent for now.

South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan cut rates on the same day, following previous reductions from Australia and China.

In Australia , the RBA cut rates by 75bp to 5. 25% (lowest level in 5-years), which was greater than the 50bp the market expected.

The Swedish Central Bank cut rates by 1. 75 points - a record there.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said it would cut rates by 100 basis points to try to contain the effects of the credit crisis.

The next two weeks are critical in our view: the ECB needs to cut rates;

Market expectations are increasing that the ECB could cut rates as soon as next week;