Is TSB about to become the next bank to slash savings rates?

minislim

GingerFurball wrote: »

Great, more useless speculation from MSE.

but 99% of the time MSE speculation turns out to be true!

sheramber

Well if they say it often enough it will eventually will be correct when it does happen. May be this year, next year or in five years.

john1002

I can't believe RBS savings have gone to 0.01%. Not sure why anyone would want to save at that rate.

Sad times for savers.

John

Pincher

john1002 wrote: »

I can't believe RBS savings have gone to 0.01%. Not sure why anyone would want to save at that rate.

Sad times for savers.

John

It is paradigm shifting.

In the good old days, if you can't make a living as a farmer, you turn bandit.

So, instead of saving and get nowhere, become a pension liberation scam salesman, and rob people who do save.

I believe the equivalent in nature is frogs changing sex.

So, we turn from a nation of savers into a nation of high pressure financial products salesmen. The triggering mechanism being low interest rates.

Crossing biology and economics, do I get a double Nobel Prize?

djpailo

karlie88 wrote: »

The thread is created manually, it's not an automatic process.

What I'd like them to do is link their article to the original thread(s):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5516532
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5516330

That way all the information/gossip is in one place and makes the forum less cluttered.

Fair enough

pearl123

If they drop their rate it is perhaps time to move. If there is anything better left!

teddysmum

john1002 wrote: »

I can't believe RBS savings have gone to 0.01%. Not sure why anyone would want to save at that rate.

Sad times for savers.

John

That makes Premium Bonds even more attractive, as there is virtually nothing to lose, but you may well gain by 'winning'. We rarely have a month when neither of us gets a 'win'; often finding that we both 'win' or one has multiple 'wins'.

eskbanker

teddysmum wrote: »

That makes Premium Bonds even more attractive, as there is virtually nothing to lose

....except capital value erosion from inflation - you can mitigate this to a certain extent by reinvesting all winnings but if you don't then the value of your pot in real terms diminishes steadily over time.

I'd agree that PBs are better than a 0.01% saving account though, but would contend that in turn there are many other accounts that beat PBs....

joe134

Of course they are, and Tesco, and LLoyds, and BOS, et.al
Not if, but when.
You don't need to read it anywhere now Santander has taken the plunge, like lemmings, the others WILL follow suit.
They are a Cartel.
Carney gave them the excuse, and they are using it.
The good times are over, if one can call them that.
We with multiple A/cs haven't exactly made a fortune.;)but what was there was available to all.
November will be the Month of several Bonfires.

pearl123

teddysmum wrote: »

That makes Premium Bonds even more attractive, as there is virtually nothing to lose, but you may well gain by 'winning'. We rarely have a month when neither of us gets a 'win'; often finding that we both 'win' or one has multiple 'wins'.

There also a good chance of winning absolutely nothing with premium bonds.