The single question measured interest in sex with four response alternatives (1 = no recent change in interest in sex, 2 = less interested, 3 = much less interested, 4 = lost interest completely).
Verdict: no change in interest rates.
The bond market was fairly quiet yesterday, with little or no change in interest rates.
RARELY has a tiny change in interest rates been the subject of so much attention.
Before the Greenspan era, the Open Market Committee voted as a body on each change in interest rates.
The theory is that if the briefcase is bulging with papers, expect a change in interest rates.
It takes about two years for a change in interest rates to have its full impact on inflation.
"The logic is that the returns are going to be so huge that a change in interest rate from 5.5percentto5.75percentcent is almost irrelevant".
City economists are broadly united in expecting no change in interest rates, or in Britain's quantitative easing programme (the BoE has already spent £375bn buying up government debt).
"Real estate is valued as an income stream, so you want to be able to figure the impact of a change in interest rates," he said.
Any change in interest rates is clearly a long way off whether or not unemployment ends up falling more rapidly than the Bank of England currently expects.
