{"id":18490,"date":"2026-04-30T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/18490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:26:27","slug":"bank-of-england-holds-interest-rate-at-3-75-as-oil-price-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/18490\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England holds interest rate at 3.75% as oil price spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Bank of England holds interest rate at 3.75% as oil price spirals\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YHt-NOL7ooo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBank of England holds interest rate at 3.75% as oil price spirals<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Bank of England has opted to hold the base rate at 3.75%. <\/p>\n<p>Eight of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted for a hold, with just one wanting to increase it. <\/p>\n<p>Before conflict erupted in the Middle East on 28 February, the Bank was expected to make the first rate cut of the year today, taking it to 3.5% &#8211; but war and the impact on oil supplies has seen the cost of crude soar, increasing the rate of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/money-live-consumer-personal-finance-tips-sky-news-latest-13040934<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #bankofengland #ukeconomy #middleeast #iranwar <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews<br \/>\nSky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\/<br \/>\nFor more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB<br \/>\nTo enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of England holds interest rate at 3.75% as oil price spirals The Bank of England has opted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[22273,22274,22271,5780,22272,22276,24,16730,426,226,1124,424,16881,22277,22275,110,22270,18732,247,14352,296,8431],"class_list":["post-18490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-3-75","tag-andrew-bailey","tag-bank-of-england","tag-banking","tag-base-rate","tag-borrowing","tag-business","tag-costs","tag-customers","tag-economy","tag-ed-conway","tag-finance","tag-gareth-barlow","tag-government-bonds","tag-governor","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rate","tag-mortgage","tag-politics","tag-savings","tag-sky-news","tag-wages"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116493437012105775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}