THE Bank of England has decided against raising the scale of monetary stimulus for the troubled UK economy for now, in what observers believe is likely to have been a close call.
At the end of its latest two-day monthly meeting yesterday, the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee held UK base rates at their record low of 0.5% and maintained the scale of its quantitative easing (QE) programme at £375 billion.
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