Investors in gilts aren’t idiots, though, and they’re well aware of this. The trust placed in gilts isn’t just that the UK government will honour its debts in full, but also that it will manage the public finances in such a way that high inflation won’t erode the value of their...
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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(Reuters) - British government bonds rallied for a third day running on Friday, all but wiping out a sharp spike in yields since the start of the year that had briefly prompted comparisons with former Prime Minister Liz Truss' "mini-budget" crisis of 2022. Yields across the range of ...
"The Bank has identified a risk from recent dysfunction in gilt markets, so the Bank will temporarily carry out purchases of long-dated UK government bonds from today in order to restore orderly market conditions," the Treasury said in a statement. ...
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:...
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 ...
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It’s a little island. So, look, the short version is UK government bonds, gilts to their friends, have had a bad start to the year, right? They’ve been falling pretty quickly. We’ve seen some pretty big falls, particularly at certain points last week. And obviously, the Labour gov...