the bank of england kept its policy unchanged but noted two contradictory trends currently at work in the uk economy—slowing growth and cost pressures that “may prove more persistent” the thursday decision to maintain the key rate at 01 was unanimous among the ninemember monetary policy committee but in a sign that the debate about the end of its quantitativeeasing program is intensifying the boe said that the decision to keep the pace of its asset buying unchanged with a total target stock of £895 billion 12