1987 Jul 6 - 1987 Dec 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2085
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 17)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Jul 21 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 342 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 87 Oct 28 We | Major | 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] |
| 87 Oct 28 We | Major | 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] |
| 87 Nov 9 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lord Stevens) [performance of the markets] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Nov 11 We | Major | Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Money Supply in October: 'First Guess'") [Bank of England provisional figures for M0 and M3] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Nov 27 Fr | Major | 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] |
| 87 Dec 1 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 87 Dec 8 Tu | Key | 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] |
| 87 Dec 28 Mo | Major | Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (heavy downward pressure on US dollar) [Treasury says UK not planning to intervene] [declassified Jul 2016] |