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PDF 87 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Official Reserves") [updated figures of assets and liabilities; intervention added $7.5b in May] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treaury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Economic Forecast") ["GDP and domestic demand in the UK are likely to grow more rapidly in 1987 than previously envisaged"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("June Economic Forecast") [economy growing very strongly in 1987, "perhaps too strongly"; predicts growth in line with productive potential in 1988 then lower in 1989] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson urges 0.5 per cent increase in interest rates; MT counters, Lawson replying that he might need to return to the topic "next week or so"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton) [Lawson urges 0.5 percent increase in base rates, with Bank support; MT rejects, issue should be revisited in August] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Interest Rates") [Lawson's ardour for a rate rise] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("The Reserves in July 1987") [rise in the reserves of $551m] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson urges 1 percent interest rate increase; MT "most unconvinced" but yields to his view] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Financial Markets since 5 August") [developments in domestic and foreign exchange markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: August 1987") [indicators suggest looser monetary conditions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to MT (Italian request for support) [seeking $800m through ECU swap arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Italian ECU request, MT acceded "noting that we had little choice but to do so"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("M0: Bankers' Balances") [explanatory note on balances at Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of England letter to Peter Middleton ("Interest Rates Over the New Weeks") [market conditions; monetary conditions - case for upward move stronger than case for down] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Recent Statistics") [aide-memoire on unemployment; output; PSBR; money; current accounts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Middleton to Griffiths (encloses Treasury autumn economic forecast) [Norgrove notes scope for tax cuts; MT cautious] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Charles Powell phone conversation record (Powell-Sir James Goldsmith) [post-Black Monday Goldsmith fears "deflationary crisis exactly on the lines of 1929"; suggests steps to avert] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Hong Kong") [HK market down 1/3; crisis in HK Futures Exchange] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to MT (US economy) [analysis suggesting US monetary squeeze] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2301 to FCO (0125Z) ("US economy: reactions to developments on Wall Street") ["unprecedented volatility blamed on twin deficits and programme trading"; likely reduction in growth next year] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG economy: reactions to developments on the financial markets") ["satisfaction that German financial centres have thus far escaped the more violent fluctuations"; Germans 'unimpressed' by US budget deficit debate disinclined to cut rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese reaction to the fall in world stock markets") ["fall in Tokyo less severe than elsewhere"; looking for US action on deficits; fear of loss of confidence in US dollar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lord Stevens) [performance of the markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Money Supply in October: 'First Guess'") [Bank of England provisional figures for M0 and M3] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Is a Recession Inevitable?") ["Of course the answer must be no" - but question constantly asked of US and therefore UK] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: November 1987") [exchange rate and domestic monetary indicators; monetary conditions tightening; annex on M0] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT "expressed her very strong concern about the continued very large scale intervention needed to hold sterling below DM3"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (heavy downward pressure on US dollar) [Treasury says UK not planning to intervene] [declassified Jul 2016]
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