rates

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Five cuts brought rates down to 4%, before the Bank held rates at its meetings in September and November 2025, before the December cut and further holds in January, March and April 2026.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Hotel room rates in popular European cities like Madrid and Florence are down 15% and 10%, respectively, while U.S. demand is up.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Economists largely expected the ECB would keep rates steady in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Sustained higher inflation could push rates up, but the weakness of the UK's jobs market and sluggish economic growth in general means this is by no means certain.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

On the other hand, vaccination rates for other diseases had skyrocketed, so it wasn't all bad news.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda