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What higher interest rates mean for your money
Season 3 · Episode 48

What higher interest rates mean for your money

What do interest rate rises mean for your savings, mortgage and investments?

Money Clinic with Claer Barrett · Financial Times

February 7, 202325m 50s

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Show Notes

The Bank of England has raised its key interest rate to 4 per cent, the highest level the UK has seen since the 2008 financial crisis. Presenter Claer Barrett is joined by Helen Saxon, deputy editor of Money Saving Expert, James Pickford, deputy editor of FT Money, and Katie Martin, the FT’s markets editor, to discuss how you can best navigate those higher rates with your savings, mortgages and investments.


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Presented by Claer Barrett. Produced by Persis Love. Our executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design is by Breen Turner, with original music from Metaphor Music. 


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