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After the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market, the global economy is in the throes of a credit crunch.
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Our economics correspondent Faisal Islam blogs on why today's historic interest rate cut raises more questions than it answers.
The Bank of England cuts interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent, the lowest rate since the bank was founded in 1694.
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