The Bank's vault keepers are busier than they ... strong winning candidate weren't disclosed. The Bank of England holds about 420,000 gold bars, and January saw the biggest outflow since 2012.

Just last week, Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey assured Britons that the UK still had "plenty of gold". "We have seen a movement in the relative price of gold in London and New York in recent ...

The adjustment to the schedule on Thursday is an unusual move. The bank will sell the same amount of bonds. But by offloading ...