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Spread bets and CFDs should consider that British, European and American rates could remain on hold

<font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread betting and contracts for differences should consider that even though there are signs of </span><a href="http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/inflation-3/" target="_blank" title="inflation, interest rates, spread bets rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for diferences, spread betting interest rates, economic growth" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">inflation</a> in <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=aExhRt9BfqEI&refer=currency" target="_blank" title="inflation, interest rates, spread bets rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for diferences, spread betting interest rates, economic growth" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Britain</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Europe and the US, some analysts are speculating that </span><a href="http://www.smartmoney.com/common-sense/index.cfm?story=july2008-the-fed-and-rate-cuts&cid=1122" target="_blank" title="inflation, interest rates, spread bets rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for diferences, spread betting interest rates, economic growth" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">interest rate increases</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> are not, in fact, right around the corner.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even though higher interest rates are often used to keep inflation in check, this is the norm during times of economic growth. This is not the case here.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Britain, the </span><a href="item/206693" target="_blank" title="inflation, interest rates, spread bets rates, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for diferences, spread betting interest rates, economic growth" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eurozone</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> and the US, this inflation is being accompanied by signs of slowing economic growth. And this, in turn, is leading to the speculation that -- for now -- interest rates are more likely to remain on hold.</span></font><br /> 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for diferences economic growth inflation interest rates spread bets spread bets rates spread betting spread betting interest rates Spread betting on interest rates http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.18 false true false false true 133535 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web