NEW YORK: Oil prices sunk for a fifth day in a row on Thursday to their lowest in two weeks on growing worries about rising COVID-19 cases in Europe and the strengthening US dollar that hurts the value of oil. Brent futures fell $3.74, or 5.5%, to $64.26 a barrel by 1:02 p.m. EST (1702
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The BOE voted 9-0 to leave the Bank rate unchanged at 0.1%. It will also continue to buy up to 875B pound of UK government bonds and 20B pound of corporate debts. While cautioning that the economic outlook remained highly uncertain, policymakers acknowledged the recent upbeat data, smooth vaccination progress and the latest budget package.