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Interest Rates

Volume 168: debated on Thursday 8 March 1990

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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the current levels of interest rates in each member state of the European Community and in Japan and the United States of America.

Following is the information requested:

Short term nominal interest rates in the EC, United States and Japan
Latest figures1
United Kingdom15·3
United States8·3
Japan7·3
Germany8·6
France10·8
Italy13·3
Belgium10·6
Denmark12·0
Greece17·0
Ireland12·0
Luxembourg10·6
Netherlands9·0
Portugal13·8
Spain15·6
1 Interest rates refer to close 5 March, except Denmark (8 March), Ireland and Portugal (January), and Greece (December).