Bank expands quantitative easing by £50 billion

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee on Thursday increased the size of its quantiative easing programme by £50 billion ($75.2 billion) to £125 billion.

The Bank, which has been granted permission to devote as much as £150 billion to quantitative easing, gave little indication of why it had chosen to increase the size of the programme. However, Spencer Dale, the Bank's chief economist, said in March that the central bank would monitor the impact of the purchases on broad money holdings

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