The Bank of England will announce an increase in its quantitative easing programme which will come to total £500bn.

Considerable attention had been focused on the US, due to its quantitative easing programmes, and on China.

The Bank of England's quantitative easing programme will pump a further £75bn into the UK economy.

The Bank of England will decide whether to increase its quantitative easing programme.

The warning comes after the Bank of England resumed its quantitative easing programme, injecting £75 billion of new money into the economy.

The votes were 9-0 on both counts when it chose to leave interest rates at 0.5% and to hold fire on extending its quantitative easing programme.

Using their quantitative scoring program, the co-managers rescreen the portfolio's stocks daily, immediately looking into any that have fallen to a 4 or 5.

Today's decision took few by surprise as February's meeting looks the more likely date for any expansion to the quantitative easing programme.

"It's consistent with the view that the committee will expand the quantitative easing programme in November," Kara said.

Bank of England policymakers voted to leave interest rates and the quantitative easing programme unchanged, after increasing emergency measures by £75bn last month.