Interest rates: what moves the cost of business borrowing
What the engine tracks for interest rates costs across the UK, US and India.
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Interest rates here means what a business pays to borrow: overdrafts, loans, asset finance and the central-bank rates they are priced from. This page collects what Atri's engine tracks for this cost: the terms it watches, the benchmarks it checks its calls against, its latest analyses, and how those calls have scored.
What the engine watches for
The engine flags a story for this cost when it names a term such as interest rate, interest rates, rate cut, or a named benchmark for the UK, US or India.
The full list of terms
It reads news, regulator notices and official data every day. The full list of terms:
- Anywhere: interest rate, interest rates, rate cut, rate rise, rate hike, lending rate, borrowing cost, borrowing costs, lending rates
- UK: bank rate, base rate, bank of england, BOE, MPC, sonia
- US: fed funds rate, EFFR, FOMC, SOFR, prime rate, federal reserve
- India: repo rate, MCLR, EBLR, RLLR, CRR, SLR, SDF, RBI
The benchmarks calls are checked against
Calls on this cost are graded against published series. The latest: UK: SONIA (Bank of England) was 3.734% for 27 Oct 2026 (source: Bank of England); India bank MCLR overnight (major banks' range midpoint, RBI) was 7.925% for 31 Oct 2026 (source: Reserve Bank of India).
Every benchmark series, by region
Each call is graded against the series for the story's region. Where no series is wired, the call is counted but not graded.
| Input | UK | US | India |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borrowing costs | SONIA (Bank of England) 3.734% for 27 Oct 2026 (source: Bank of England) | No benchmark wired yet | India bank MCLR overnight (major banks' range midpoint, RBI) 7.925% for 31 Oct 2026 (source: Reserve Bank of India) |
Latest analyses on interest rates costs
1 indexed analysis names this cost (1 UK, 0 US); the newest is from 17 Sept 2026.
Newest first. Each one shows its chain from the event to a business, and its source.
UK
More briefings by region: UK early warnings · US early warnings · India briefings (informational only).
How the engine's calls on this cost have scored
Not enough graded calls yet to show a hit rate: 1 graded so far, 0 pending.
By input, and how calls are graded
- Borrowing costs: Not enough graded calls yet: 1 graded so far, 0 pending.
Every cost call is dated when it is published and graded against a published benchmark series once its period ends. No hit rate is shown for fewer than 30 graded calls. How calls are graded.
How this analysis was produced
- Data sources
- SONIA (Bank of England): Bank of England; India bank MCLR overnight (major banks' range midpoint, RBI): Reserve Bank of India; Atri engine: indexed analyses and the public track record
- What the AI did
- No AI wrote this page. It is assembled automatically from the engine: the terms its matcher watches, the benchmark series and their latest published values, the indexed analyses (each written by an AI model, with its own disclosure) and the graded track record.
- Checked automatically
- only indexed analyses are listed; no hit rate under 30 graded calls; figures are quoted as published, with the period they cover.
- What people did
- People chose the benchmark series and the terms. No person reviews this page before it changes.
- Data as of
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