Sterlingrose slightly against the U.S. dollar following the release, trading up 0.05% at $1.3067 by 8:56 a.m. London time. U.K. government bond yields, meanwhile, ticked lower, with the 10-year trading around 4.211%, having climbed sharply over recent days. The U.K.'s dominant servic...
This decline mirrored a drop in US Treasury yields after weak data from the US Midwest. In the UK, there is growing expectation that the Bank of England will take a gradual approach to rate cuts, despite inflation reaching an eight-month high in November. However, the rise in services ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British markets are among the biggest victims of a global bond selloff that has spilled over into currencies and stocks this week. Yields on long-dated British government bonds are at their highest in decades - putting government finances under pressure - while sterling is st...
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Yields on 10-year British government bonds, known as gilts, dipped modestly in the wake of the Labour Party's majority win in Thursday's national vote, joining a muted response from the British currency. The yield on the 10-year gilt fell just under 4 basis points to 4.166% at 10:...
Since then, increases in government debt yields have put that budgetary wriggle room under threat. The level of bond yields is an important determinant of the budget headroom given its implications for the government’s interest bill, which exceeds £100 billion a year. The latest increase in ...
Gilts are financial instruments the UK government issues to borrow money from investors to pay for goods and services that it cannot cover with tax revenue. Bond prices and yields move inversely due to the return – the coupon – investors receive staying the same and being a proportion of the...
The 10-year gilt yield has now increased only 5 basis points since the end of 2024 - meaning it has outperformed the equivalent benchmark bond from every other Group of Seven advanced economy bar the United States. However, 10-year yields are still around 0.35 percentage points higher th...
Dysfunction in the debt market, and the prospect of self-reinforcing "fire sale" dynamics, pose a material risk to UK financial stability, it said. Yields on government bonds continued to rise at the beginning of this week, fueling concerns in the markets. Inflation-linked gilts, which are ...
though. If you are one of these people who’s got a chart in front of you showing you UK yields and US yields, they go absolutely hand in hand. So to my mind, really what’s happening here is that the US bond market is moving. US government bonds are weakening. That means that ...