{"id":15577,"date":"2017-11-17T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/17\/household-finances-under-strain-as-nationwide-warns-of-tough-times-ahead\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:57:13","slug":"household-finances-under-strain-as-nationwide-warns-of-tough-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=15577","title":{"rendered":"Household finances under strain as Nationwide warns of tough times ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building society warns \u2018sluggish\u2019 economy, Brexit uncertainty, weak wage increases and rising inflation are hurting customers\u2019 financesHousehold finances are under worsening pressure, according to Nationwide building society, which reported a fall in profits and warned of tougher trading conditions ahead.Total mortgage lending slipped from \u00a317.5bn to \u00a316.7bn, largely because of a steep decline in loans for buy-to-let following the tax changes. But as lending for landlords has fallen, loans granted to first-time buyers have surged. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/nov\/17\/household-finances-under-strain-as-nationwide-warns-of-tough-times-ahead\" target=\"_blank\">Household finances under strain as Nationwide warns of tough times ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building society warns \u2018sluggish\u2019 economy, Brexit uncertainty, weak wage increases and rising inflation are hurting customers\u2019 financesHousehold finances are under worsening pressure, according to Nationwide building society, which reported a fall in profits and warned of tougher trading conditions ahead.Total mortgage lending slipped from \u00a317.5bn to \u00a316.7bn, largely because of [&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-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","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=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}