4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money Podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me and editor, Simon Lambert. |
0:04.6 | Today is Pensions and Investments editor Tanya Jeffries. And in their deftest Maradonna move yet, will they go left, will they go right? |
0:13.0 | No, the Bank of England just continued straight down the middle. But have they scored a worldly in the top left corner or missed an absolute sitter with the decision to |
0:21.5 | hold rates again. Home owners have breathed a collective sigh of relief, but is this the end |
0:26.9 | of super cheap mortgage deals? And will this finally take some of the steam out of the red hot |
0:31.1 | property market? Asked Simon. Also today, those waiting for the state pension to start have been |
0:36.0 | telling this is money of the hardships that they've faced. |
0:38.7 | DWP said the situation has now been sorted, but has it. |
0:42.4 | Former pensions minister and this is money, pensions agony. Uncle Steve Webb joins us for that. |
0:47.1 | Plus, the government bodges pension age changes. |
0:50.2 | The lords try to save the triple lock and we dealt into the crazy world of council tax. |
0:56.6 | Don't forget, you step to date with all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.com. |
1:00.4 | UK or download the app. |
1:03.0 | But first, despite all the noise, the Bank of England pulled a very Bank of England move and did not a great deal. |
1:10.8 | Interest rates stayed at 0.1% this week and the |
1:14.0 | QE program also remained unchanged at 895 billion. It wasn't a unanimous decision though. |
1:20.4 | 7-2 split for interest rates, 6-3 for QE. But that's despair. Inflation could top 5% in April next year. |
1:28.4 | So what gives Simon? |
1:29.8 | The financial markets, I believe, priced in a 90% chance of rise, was it? |
1:33.5 | So what happened? |
1:35.2 | Did they bottle it, as I saw one press release, suggested they might have done? |
1:39.8 | Good question. |
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