{"id":321,"date":"2020-05-20T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-05-20T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:17:04","slug":"uk-government-being-paid-to-borrow-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/uk-government-being-paid-to-borrow-money\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government being paid to borrow money!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government has sold a gilt with a negative yield for the first time. An auction by the Debt Management Office of a gilt maturing in July 2023 sold at an average yield of -0.003 per cent. <br> A negative yield means that the government is effectively being rewarded to borrow as investors agree to be repaid slightly less than they lent.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has sold a gilt with a negative yield for the first time. An auction by the Debt Management Office of a gilt maturing in July 2023 sold at an average yield of -0.003 per cent. A negative yield means that the government is effectively being rewarded to borrow as investors agree to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/uk-government-being-paid-to-borrow-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK government being paid to borrow money!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}