fagan2888 / bank_of_england_news_analysis

Bank news analysis using Natural Language Processing

Author: Levan Tsinadze

Task

Given a bank news statement, extract bank rate and quantitative easing (QE) numbers.

given bank news: 'The Governor invited the Committee to vote on the proposition that: Bank Rate should be maintained at 0.5%; The Bank of England should maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200 billion. Seven members of the Committee (the Governor, Charles Bean, Paul Tucker, Spencer Dale, Paul Fisher, David Miles and Martin Weale) voted in favour of the proposition. Two members of the Committee voted against the proposition. Adam Posen preferred to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5% and increase the size of the asset purchase programme by £50 billion to a total of £250 billion. Andrew Sentance preferred to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points and to maintain the size of the asset purchase programme at £200 billion. Minutes of the meeting'
get Bank Rate: 0.5%
get QE: £200

API Service usage

Postman to send GET requests on this url URL

http://207.154.208.17:5000?text=The Governor invited the Committee to vote on the proposition that: Bank Rate should be maintained at 0.5%; The Bank of England should maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200 billion. Seven members of the Committee (the Governor, Charles Bean, Paul Tucker, Spencer Dale, Paul Fisher, David Miles and Martin Weale) voted in favour of the proposition. Two members of the Committee voted against the proposition. Adam Posen preferred to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5% and increase the size of the asset purchase programme by £50 billion to a total of £250 billion. Andrew Sentance preferred to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points and to maintain the size of the asset purchase programme at £200 billion. Minutes of the meeting

Using Curl

curl --request POST \
  --url http://207.154.208.17:5000/ \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'postman-token: fd6efeda-cada-1a5c-4428-881b5a556035' \
  --data '["The Governor invited the Committee to vote on the proposition that: Bank Rate should be maintained at 0.5%; The Bank of England should maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200 billion. Seven members of the Committee (the Governor, Charles Bean, Paul Tucker, Spencer Dale, Paul Fisher, David Miles and Martin Weale) voted in favour of the proposition. Two members of the Committee voted against the proposition. Adam Posen preferred to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5% and increase the size of the asset purchase programme by £50 billion to a total of £250 billion. Andrew Sentance preferred to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points and to maintain the size of the asset purchase programme at £200 billion. Minutes of the meeting"]'

Response:

[{"news": "The governor invited the committee to vote on the proposition that: bank rate should be maintained at 0.5%; the bank of england should maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200 billion. seven members of the committee (the governor, charles bean, paul tucker, spencer dale, paul fisher, david miles and martin weale) voted in favour of the proposition. two members of the committee voted against the proposition. adam posen preferred to maintain bank rate at 0.5% and increase the size of the asset purchase programme by £50 billion to a total of £250 billion. andrew sentance preferred to increase bank rate by 25 basis points and to maintain the size of the asset purchase programme at £200 billion. minutes of the meeting", "Bank_Rate": "0.5%", "QE": "£200"}]