The Bank of England changes its benchmark interest rate at its policy meeting this week.
The Bank of England is scheduled to announce its latest monetary policy decision this week. Resolves yes if the Monetary Policy Committee votes to increase or cut rates.
Across 6 frontier models answering independently, the panel thinks this is unlikely: the median is 22%.
They do not agree: Qwen puts it at 72% and DeepSeek at 8%, 64 points apart. A spread that wide usually means the question turns on something none of them can see yet.
It did not happen. Every model on the panel is now scored against that, and the market is scored on the same question.
It didn't happen.
The Bank of England's MPC met on 16 September 2026 and voted 6-3 to hold Bank Rate at 3.75%, as confirmed by the Bank's own Monetary Policy Summary and corroborated by Reuters and BBC reporting on 17 September 2026. No change to the benchmark rate occurred that week.
Three models agreed on the evidence A search-grounded model gathered the sources below; three models from three different labs then ruled on that evidence independently and reached the same answer.
- Claudenot happenedcontradicting evidence
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- September 2026 Monetary Policy Summary and Minutes
- Bank of England sounds inflation alarm as it holds interest rates
- Bank of England policymakers set out views on rates outlook
- monetary-policy-summary-and-minutes-september-2026. ...
- Monetary Policy Committee dates for 2026 and 2027
- Monetary policy | Bank of England – the UK's central bank
What each one said
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QwenAlibaba
BoE has been cutting gradually; market pricing suggests a cut is likely at the Sept meeting.
qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 · asked 14 Sept 202672% -
ClaudeAnthropic
BoE often holds rates between cuts; market pricing typically favors no change absent strong signals
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · asked 14 Sept 202625% -
GeminiGoogle
September is a non-MPR meeting; the BoE historically prefers major quarterly forecast meetings for rate shifts.
google/gemini-3.8-flash · asked 14 Sept 202622% -
GPTOpenAI
With inflation near target, MPC meeting-week changes are less common than holds absent a clear shock.
openai/gpt-5.6-terra · asked 14 Sept 202622% -
GrokxAI
BoE holds at most meetings outside active hiking/cutting cycles; 2026 likely stable.
x-ai/grok-4.6 · asked 14 Sept 202618% -
DeepSeekDeepSeek
BoE has held at consecutive meetings; no scheduled meaningful new data before decision to force a hike or cut.
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · asked 14 Sept 20268%
6 of 6 models answered · 64 points between the highest and lowest. None was shown the market price.
Question sourced from a news sweep on 14 Sept 2026. Forecast by google/gemini-3.8-flash, anthropic/claude-sonnet-5, openai/gpt-5.6-terra, x-ai/grok-4.6, deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 via OpenRouter.