MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.

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He's only the man behind the modern day drum machine and the original MPC-60, and he's also the man behind the concept you're inevitably peering at above.

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In August the bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) forecast that consumer-price inflation would fall back to its official 2% target, but only after a period of economic weakness had drawn its sting.

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The IMF makes a pretty strong signal to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) not to raise interest rates unless there's a take-off of inflation expectations.

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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept interest rates at the record-low level of 0.5% at its meeting in June.

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Adam Posen, an MPC member, believes that some of the economy's weakness is down to a shortfall of small-business investment linked to a dearth of credit.

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