The Bank of England has warned that the coronavirus pandemic will push the UK economy towards its deepest recession on record.To get more news about Financika, you can visit wikifx news official website.
　　It said the economy was on course to shrink 14% this year, based on the lockdown being relaxed in June.
　　Scenarios drawn up by the Bank to illustrate the economic impact said Covid-19 was "dramatically reducing jobs and incomes in the UK".
　　Policymakers voted unanimously to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.1%.
　　However, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates was split on whether to inject more stimulus into the economy.
　　Two of its nine members voted to increase the latest round of quantitative easing by £100bn to £300bn.
　　The Bank's analysis was based on social distancing measures being gradually phased out between June and September.
　　The Bank's scenario showed the UK economy plunging into its first recession in more than a decade. The economy shrinks by 3% in the first quarter of 2020, followed by an unprecedented 25% decline in the three months to June.
　　This would push the UK into a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline.
　　Rebound
　　For the year as a whole, the economy is expected to contract by 14%. This would be the biggest annual decline on record, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data dating back to 1949.
　　It would also be the sharpest annual contraction since 1706, according to reconstructed Bank of England data stretching back to the 18th Century.
　　While UK growth is expected to rebound in 2021 to 15%, the size of the economy is not expected to get back to its pre-virus peak until the middle of next year.
　　Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, said he expected any permanent damage from the pandemic to be "relatively small". The economy was likely to recover "much more rapidly than the pull back from the global financial crisis," he said.
　　Mr Bailey also praised the action by the government to support workers and businesses through wage subsidies, loans and grants. He said the success of these schemes meant there would be "limited scarring to the economy".
　　James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said the hit to the economy this year was equivalent to £9,000 for every family in Britain.
　　He said: "Faced with this huge economic hit, both the Bank and the Government have made the right call in taking bold action to protect firms and families as much as possible."
　　The UK government is expected to start easing lockdown restrictions next week.
　　The Bank stressed that the outlook for the economy was "unusually uncertain" at present and would depend on how households and businesses responded to the pandemic.
　　It assumes job losses and shrinking pay packets will continue to weigh on the recovery, with British families remaining cautious about shopping and socialising for at least another year.

Coronavirus and the collapse of oil revenue have increased the economic pressure on President Maduro's government

　　The Central Bank of Venezuela has launched a legal claim to try and force the Bank of England to release €930m ($1bn; £820m) worth of gold it holds.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx news official website.

　　Venezuela, already suffering under US sanctions, says it wants to use the gold's value to tackle coronavirus.

　　The proceedings follow a request, made weeks ago, asking for the value to be transferred to the United Nations.

　　Legal documents say the bank wants the transfer made "as a matter of urgency" to buy supplies like food and medicine.

　　The country has so far reported 618 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths.

　　Venezuela's economy has collapsed under the leadership of President Nicholas Maduro, whose leadership is not recognised by dozens of nations including the UK and the US.

　　Millions of people have fled the country in recent years and shortages of essentials have become widespread.Selling off gold reserves has become an economic lifeline for Mr Maduro's government, which is under strict international sanctions.

　　The legal claim was filed in a London court on 14 May.

The Central Bank of Venezuela says it wants the funds transferred to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to administer the purchase of supplies like medical equipment.
Media captionThe Venezuelan hospital where there's barely running water, let alone medicine

　　"With lives on the line, now is not the time to attempt to score political points," Sarosh Zaiwalla, a London-based lawyer representing the central bank, said in a statement.

　　The UN told the BBC in an emailed statement only that it had been approached by the Venezuelan bank to explore such mechanisms.

　　The Bank of England, which acts as a gold custodian for a number of developing nations, declined to comment when asked about the case by the Reuters news agency.

　　The legal wrangling comes amid fears about ability of Venezuela's aged healthcare system to handle a severe coronavirus outbreak.

The country has been under quarantine measures since March, when Mr Maduro declared a state of emergency.