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Just heard interest rates have gone up

On sky news now interest gone up by 0.25%
I found my eutopia tee hee I live in canada yeehaa!
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  • mystic_trev
    mystic_trev Posts: 5,434 Forumite
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    ......and note he said "going up again soon" !!!!!!!

    Actually I didn't think they'd be going up, but odds of 32:1 on befair we're too good for me to ignore. My £40 bet has made me £1,200 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Should be an interesting year.
  • PoorDave
    PoorDave Posts: 952 Forumite
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    ......and note he said "going up again soon" !!!!!!!

    Actually I didn't think they'd be going up, but odds of 32:1 on befair we're too good for me to ignore. My £40 bet has made me £1,200 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Applause! Nice work!
    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery
  • F_T_Buyer
    F_T_Buyer Posts: 1,139 Forumite
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    There is a higher chance of another rise, than not. This shouldn't come as a surprise, i've been mentioning it for a while as the data supported it.
  • manhattan
    manhattan Posts: 1,461 Forumite
    Uniform Washer
    Well done! mystic_trev

    And good news for us savers!
  • tonydee
    tonydee Posts: 722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    For all those wise peeps who fixed their mortgages. Well done ;)
  • sarah_elton
    sarah_elton Posts: 2,017 Forumite
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    tonydee wrote:
    For all those wise peeps who fixed their mortgages. Well done ;)

    Yep, my 4.99% fix keeps getting better.

    Come January 2009 I might not be so happy.
  • ba-ha-ha 4.49% fixed a few months ago, bring it on
  • tonydee
    tonydee Posts: 722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    FTSE 100 dropped 45 points on the news.
  • tkane
    tkane Posts: 333 Forumite
    Haha a particular forum is going wild *ahem*HPC*ahem* :rolleyes:

    One more rise before April now guaranteed....things are gonna get nasty...
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