UK Bank Rate / Markit Group Limited / Bloomberg / /
Country
Germany / Italy / France / Japan / United States / Portugal / United Kingdom / Spain / Greece / Ireland / /
Currency
GBP / cent / USD / EUR / /
Facility
stable Sectoral / /
IndustryTerm
real estate investment trusts / bank funding reference rates / bank funding costs / fixed-rate retail bonds / spreads banks / retail funding / corporate bond finance / finance / euro-area banks / retail bonds / non-bank credit grantors / net external finance / financial / bank lending / crude oil / real estate sector / bank funding / external finance / /
MarketIndex
S&P 500 / Euro Stoxx 2010 / Topix / Topix 140 / /
Organization
US government / European Central Bank / Bank of Japan / Reserve Bank of Australia / ECB’s Governing Council / Federal Open Market Committee / Federal Reserve Bank of New York / Greek government / US Federal Reserve / Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors / Monetary Policy Committee / French and German government / Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association / Bank of England / /
Position
major UK lenders / Governor / Chancellor of the Exchequer / /
Section 1 Money and asset prices 9 1 Money and asset prices In the United Kingdom, official interest rates remained at historically low levels, and the market