21. The Bank of England today lowered its minimum lending rate by a quarter point to 6 . 25 percent. 22. The Bank of England said it would raise its key minimum lending rate to 6.75 percent, from 6.25 percent. 23. The country's minimum lending rate was last raised on Oct . 30 by a quarter point to 6 percent. 24. The increase comes a day after Siam Commercial Bank Pcl increased its minimum lending rate by a similar amount. 25. The Bank of England today also lowered its minimum lending rate by a quarter percentage point to 6 . 25 percent. 26. The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee left the minimum lending rate unchanged at 7.25 percent, in line with many economists'expectations. 27. The increases took the minimum lending rate -- the lowest rate the central bank charges commercial banks for loans-- to 7.25 percent. 28. Bangkok Bank Plc, the country's biggest bank, raised its minimum lending rate half a percentage point to 14 . 25 percent. 29. The lowering of the minimum lending rate is therefore likely to trigger a cut in bank base rates to 5.75 percent. 30. Minimum lending rates are now as much as 2.5 percent lower than last year at 14 percent for India's top-rated companies.
