{"id":6586,"date":"2016-03-02T23:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seven-years-of-low-interest-rates-have-cost-savers-up-to-160bn\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:51:42","slug":"seven-years-of-low-interest-rates-have-cost-savers-up-to-160bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seven-years-of-low-interest-rates-have-cost-savers-up-to-160bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven years of low interest rates have 'cost savers up to \u00a3160bn'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLoose monetary policy has \u2018annihilated\u2019 returns on cash, but mortgage borrowers and investors have benefitedSeven years of quantitative easing and record low interest rates have cost savers an estimated \u00a3160bn, but supported strong increases in the prices of property, stocks and bonds. Analysis by financial firm Hargreaves Lansdown suggests that up to \u00a3106bn is being held in accounts that pay no interest, as loose monetary policy has \u201cannihilated\u201d returns on cash. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Loose monetary policy has \u2018annihilated\u2019 returns on cash, but mortgage borrowers and investors have benefitedSeven...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-1Ie","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21386,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/interest-rate-cut-good-news-for-mortgages-bad-news-for-savers\/","url_meta":{"origin":6586,"position":0},"title":"Interest rate cut: good news for mortgages, bad news for savers","date":"July 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r If the Bank of England cuts rates to 0.25%, it will benefit home-buyers, but once again savings will be hitThose with large tracker mortgages can prepare to break out the prosecco. 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