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    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      UK interest rates
      Markets price in UK interest rate of 6.5% by next March

      Expectations rise sharply to anticipate highest borrowing costs since 1998

      Andrew Bailey raises his hands as he speaks at an event
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      UK sells £4bn of debt at highest 2-year borrowing cost this century

      Yields have increased sharply as investors brace for further Bank of England interest rate rises

      Montage of the Bank of England building, £10 notes and a chart
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Gilts lose out in global bond market rally

      Stubborn inflation makes UK government debt a ‘huge outlier’

      UK bonds graphic
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Retail investors snap up gilts as yields surge ahead of UK savings rates

      Government-appointed dealer says trading volumes rose sevenfold in May compared with same month in 2022

    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Q&A
      How to join gilts buyers as yields grow

      Popularity soars in government bonds maturing in the next two years

      The London Stock Exchange headquarters
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      ExplainerUK mortgage rates
      How the bond market is driving up UK mortgage rates

      Surge in borrowing costs reflects shift in gilts and interest rate swaps

      Montage of a terrace of homes and the Bank of England’s logo
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      BoE: plagued by gilt

      Sleeping QT

    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      Who’s afraid of the gilt market?

      Governments shouldn’t be spooked by a lobby whose financial interests are maximised when economic growth is absent

      Kwasi Kwarteng, then chancellor, delivers the mini-Budget last year
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Fund managers snap up gilts as yields soar

      Large firms turn more positive as sharp sell-off takes UK’s two-year bonds above levels seen after ‘mini’ Budget

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      UK inflation
      UK inflation taking ‘lot longer’ than hoped to come down, says Bailey

      Gilt yields pass ‘mini’ Budget levels as former Treasury chief warns that Sunak could be facing voters during a recession

      BoE governor Andrew Bailey
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      LexBank of England
      Bank of England: soaring gilt yields sharpen focus on forecasting errors Premium content

      BoE’s forecasts are based on announced government policy, while everyone else can use their common sense

      People walk outside the Bank of England in the City of London
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK retail investors piling into gilts, says AJ Bell

      Company says fixed-income products have become much more popular

      Michael Summersgill
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      Gilt yields soar towards mini-Budget levels after inflation disappoints

      Despite fall to single figures, April’s consumer price inflation of 8.7% is significantly above BoE’s forecast

      An image of a person holding a shopping basket
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Traders predict more trouble ahead for UK bond market

      Gilt yields rise after string of stronger than expected inflation data

      The Bank of England in London
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Competition & Markets Authority
      Five banks broke competition law over gilts, UK watchdog provisionally finds

      CMA’s initial finding shows traders exchanged sensitive information on pricing and strategies

      A worker using a Bloomberg terminal
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Flood of bond sales pushes up UK borrowing costs

      Investors point to record debt supply as gilt yields climb above those on US Treasuries

      The headquarters of HM Treasury in London
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      UK quantitative easing
      Bank of England forecasts £100bn payment from Treasury by 2033 over QE losses

      Central bank stresses figures relating to bond-buying programme are estimates

      The Bank of England building
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      UK gilt market returns to normal as ‘idiot premium’ subsides

      An end to the soaring yields and forced selling under the Truss administration should make it easier to issue new bonds

      Liz Truss, then UK prime minister, speaking in October 2022
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Lex
      UK government bonds: short end offers investors a gilty pleasure Premium content

      Chances are that UK interest rates have peaked

      Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Gilts are becoming munis and no-one seems to have noticed

      He Figured Out This One Simple Trick… . . HMRC HATES him!

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Hunt’s record borrowing plans shrugged off by investors

      UK chancellor pencils in £241bn of gilt sales next year

      UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt makes his annual budget statement in the House of Commons
    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      LexUK insurance industry
      UK pensions: buy out boom brings benefits Premium content

      Jettisoning schemes is liberating for companies that have long struggled with volatile deficits

      Philip Green, the billionaire owner of fashion retailer Arcadia Group
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Central bank intervention
      A blueprint for central bank intervention

      Or how to buy bonds while still tightening policy

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Putting a price on Britain’s linker addiction

      Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Fund management
      Insight Investment ditched market prices in gilts crisis

      Asset manager chose its own valuations for fraught day preceding Bank of England rescue

      Abdallah Nauphal
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