{"id":68,"date":"2007-02-28T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-02-28T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:45:38","slug":"hbos-profits-surge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/hbos-profits-surge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HBOS profits surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mwprices.ft.com\/custom\/ft2-com\/html-quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&#038;q=HBOS&#038;searchtype&#038;expanded=&#038;countrycode=uk&#038;s2=uk&#038;symb=HBOS&#038;company=NEW\"><font color=\"#003399\">HBOS<\/font><\/a><\/strong> surpassed expectations as it reported a rise in annual profits of 19 per cent but warned consumers were struggling to cope with recent interest rate rises and higher utility bills.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fourth-largest bank said unsecured lending in the UK slowed last year as consumers adjusted to higher levels of debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBOS surpassed expectations as it reported a rise in annual profits of 19 per cent but warned consumers were struggling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}