The central bank has for four months kept its key interest rate at a record low of 2 percent.

The average working week dropped back to a record low of 33 hours.

The record low of 2.63 percent also was reached in November.

Construction is now 23 percent above its record low of April.

The previous record low was 1.87 percent, reached earlier this month.

And unemployment hit a record low of 7.1 percent for the month.

But it was well above the record low of 1.3 percent in December.

Rates are still above the record low of 4.71 percent set in early December.

The Bank also kept its main interest rate at the record low of 0.5 per cent.

The central bank is widely expected to hold rates at a record low of 2.5 percent.

The Fed had kept interest rates at a record low of 3% for more than two years.

Confidence with the government dropped to a record low of 39%.

The stock had touched a record low of 60p earlier this month.

Interest rates are expected to remain at their record low of 0.5pc, meanwhile.

That was up slightly from the record low of 18 set in December.

All nine members voted to hold the bank rate at its record low of 0.5pc.

The meeting also decided to keep interest rates at their record low of 0.5 per cent.

Interest rates were kept on hold at the record low of 0.5 per cent, as expected.

The markets expect the Bank's main interest rate to remain at the record low of 0.5 percent for many months to come.

Some even predict rates to fall to a record low of 1 percent by June.

And, as expected, the bank left its benchmark interest rate at a record low of 0.75 percent.

Atlanta had a record low of 26 degrees on Tuesday.

M3 money supply growth has slowed to a record low of 3pc.

Just last fall, black unemployment had fallen to a record low of 7.2 percent.

That would take the bank's benchmark rate to a record low of 0.5 percent.