Global markets respond to historic rate cuts

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The financial markets open just as the Bank of England and the European Central Bank dramatically slash rates.
“Politically, nobody wants to say that; it’s very much the agenda that politicians say that banks should be passing on the full cut to their customers, but actually there’s a good case for saying maybe not quite all of it should be going on.”
? Andrew Walker on the BOE rate cut

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