said regarding the QT program that the Bank of England was "stuck between a rock and a hard place and that's because of the choice they made in the past," and that it was the only central bank in the world that was recording these types of losses. ...
pointed to a 7-2 split in favour of holding rates. last month, the mpc voted 5-4 to cut, but said some of the five saw the decision as finely balanced. qt crunch time bond investors are watching for thursday's annual decision on the pace of the boe's quantitativ...
On Thursday, the BoE also announced its annual quantitative tightening (QT) plan, confirming that it will reduce its bond portfolio by £100 billion ($133 billion) over the next year. This reduction will occur through both active sales and the natural maturation of gilts. While t...
Why has the Bank of England acted? The Bank of England has intervened in the bond market in a bid to stabilise the UK economy. The concern was there would be a huge run on pensions, similar to the run on Northern Rock at the start of the financial crisis. The bank said it would bu...
LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England kept interest rates at 5.0% on Thursday, saying it would be careful about future cuts, and also held off from running down its bond holdings at a faster pace, avoiding extra budget strains for finance minister Rache...
Bank of England Issues Economic Slowdown WarningThe Bank of England warned yesterday that the short-term outlook for the UK economy was "rather lower" than expected, casting further doubt on Chancellor Gordon Brown's economic forecasts.
The Bank of England responsible for the overall solvency of the system at last realised their dreadful error of selling so many bonds when pension funds were so weak. They suspended the sales and agreed to buy some. The market surged upwards, Pension funds had space to reduce their heavily ...
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for the coming year. Active bond sales are likely to fall in 2025 due to a surge in redemptions, limiting the initial growth of public debt. The key question for the OBR is whether the BoE would signal a slower future pace of QT or a limit to the winding down of the balance sheet....