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The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4%.
A hold in the cost of borrowing was thought less likely following the Federal Reserve's decision to trim 50 basis points from its interest rates yesterday.
And today's freeze means UK interest rates have remained on hold since November last year.
Three of the bank's nine rate-setters voted for a reduction last month.
The cut is bad news for manufacturers, who called on the Monetary Policy Committee to act after figures earlier this week showed a surprise fall in manufacturing output.
Manufacturing production fell unexpectedly in August and September, and consumer confidence dropped to its weakest this year last month. The figures from the Office for National Statistics appeared to banish hopes that a long-awaited recovery in the sector could be round the corner.
That strengthened the view in the City that the MPC would abandon the "wait and see" approach