Investing.com - Minutes from the Bank of England's most recent policy meeting released Wednesday showed that the Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to keep rates on hold and its quantitative-easing program unchanged.
The minutes showed all nine members were in favor of leaving the key interest rate at a record low of 0.5% and making no changes to the central bank's £375 billion asset-purchase program.
According to the minutes, two members saw the decision as "finely balanced", while all members agreed that the next rate move likely to be increase.
GBP/USD was trading at 1.4974 from around 1.4944 ahead of the release of the data, while EUR/GBP was at 0.7183 from 0.7197 earlier.
Meanwhile, European stock markets remained lower. London’s FTSE 100 shed 0.55%, the EURO STOXX 50 dipped 0.1%, France's CAC 40 slumped 0.25%, while Germany's DAX declined 0.2%.