{"id":140119,"date":"2020-04-14T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/14\/uk-financial-services-looked-gloomy-even-before-covid-19-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:01:25","slug":"uk-financial-services-looked-gloomy-even-before-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140119","title":{"rendered":"UK financial services looked gloomy even before Covid-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banks, insurers and fund managers reported a drop in optimism, CBI survey findsBritain\u2019s financial services sector suffered a drop in profits and a spike in bad debts even before the coronavirus prompted a countrywide lockdown.The latest CBI\/PwC financial services survey paints a disappointing picture for the sector, with banks, insurers and fund managers already reporting a drop in optimism over the three months to March \u2013 and rising concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/apr\/14\/uk-financial-services-looked-gloomy-even-before-covid-19-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">UK financial services looked gloomy even before Covid-19 crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks, insurers and fund managers reported a drop in optimism, CBI survey findsBritain\u2019s financial services sector suffered a drop in profits and a spike in bad debts even before the coronavirus prompted a countrywide lockdown.The latest CBI\/PwC financial services survey paints a disappointing picture for the sector, with banks, insurers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}