The savings market has remained stubbornly impervious to the recent rise in base rates, but there are signs that the banking credit market is proving slightly more sensitive. The loser in all this? You guessed it – the consumer. Here’s what we wrote in a recent blog about intractable savings rates in the immediate aftermath […]
Today’s income-hungry investors and savers are drastically short of options if they look to the mainstream market. Some £1.4 trillion is currently wasting away on cash deposit earning an average of less than 0.4 per cent, according to Building Society Association figures. Our friends at P2P Finance News bring us a report, excerpted below, that […]
The UK economy grew faster than expected, at a rate of 0.4 per cent between July and September of this year. The key questions arising from this are what this means for base rates – and what this means for savings rates. The headline message, according to Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, is that potentially higher […]
Today we look at some commentary that examines the Cash Individual Savings Account (ISA) market in a benign light. The points made are interesting, but we feel the broader picture needs to be examined. The text (edited for reasons of space and economy of narrative) comes from a microsite, Best Savings Rates. The full article […]