BoE looking more urgently at negative rates, riskier assets - Haldane

The Bank of England is looking more urgently at options such as negative interest rates and buying riskier assets to prop up the country's economy as it slides into a deep coronavirus slump, the BoE's chief economist was quoted as saying.The Telegraph newspaper said the economist, Andy Haldane, refused to rule out the possibility of taking interest rates below zero and buying lower-quality financial assets under the central bank's bond-buying programme.Top BoE officials have previously expressed