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    Mary McDougall

    Bonds and currencies reporter

    Mary reports on sovereign debt and foreign exchange markets. She previously covered tax and before that was an investment writer at Investors’ Chronicle. She was named personal finance journalist of the year at the Wincott Awards in 2022.
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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Personal Finance
      The Autumn Statement and your money 

      Analysis of the chancellor’s cuts to national insurance and changes to Isas and pensions

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Q&AGilts
      Inflation-proof gilts: is it time to buy ‘linkers’?

      Expectation for average UK inflation over the next five years is 3.8 per cent

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      US Dollar
      Investors dump dollar in bet that US rates have peaked

      Asset managers sell greenback at fastest pace in a year as market prices in more rate cuts next year

      Dollar bills
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      Gilt yields rise as UK plans to borrow more than expected

      Treasury reduces issuance programme by less than market forecasts

      The Treasury building
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      News in-depthGilts
      The UK issues more inflation-linked debt than anyone else. Has it worked?

      Interest payments on ‘linkers’ to hit £92bn over the next 5 years

      A group of local women hold up placards to protest about rising food prices outside a supermarket in Tottenham, north London, in 1971
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Eurozone economy
      Investors bet on earlier interest rate cuts in eurozone and UK

      Weak economic data have added to investors’ conviction on ECB and BoE moves next year

      Christine Lagarde speaks at an event
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel
      Israel raises $6bn in borrowing bonanza to fund war against Hamas

      Yield on debt is sharply higher than before the conflict began

      The Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      UK inflation
      UK inflation slows sharply to 4.6%

      Bigger than expected fall allows Rishi Sunak to say he has met pledge to halve rate of price rises

      A pedestrian shelters from the rain beneath an umbrella as they walk near the Bank of England in the City
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Asset allocation
      Investors snap up bonds and stocks in bet interest rates have peaked

      Fund managers’ holdings of cash fell to a two-year low this month, Bank of America survey shows

      Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock exchange
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      German economy
      Court threatens to blow €60bn hole in German budget over off-balance sheet funds

      Ruling related to country’s enshrined debt brake risks spat within coalition and cash for energy transition

    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      GIC Private Ltd
      GIC chief says investors should prefer Big Tech to start-ups on AI

      Singapore’s tech-focused sovereign wealth fund says established companies are seeing AI wins with existing customers

      Lim Chow Kiat
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Markets
      Will US inflation signal a need for further rate rises?

      Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

      US Federal Reserve building
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Central banks
      Market skittishness complicates central banks’ interest rate plans

      Falling government bond yields loosen the tight financial conditions policymakers want to create

      Christine Lagarde
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Central banks
      Central bankers adamant rates will remain high, as markets bet on cuts

      Officials say they would want to see companies cutting profit margins to be convinced inflation would fall sufficiently

      Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, left, and Central Bank of Ireland chief Gabriel Makhlouf at a conference in Dublin on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Gilts
      UK gilts rally after official signals BoE is open to rate cuts in 2024

      Yield on short-term British government debt falls to lowest level since June

      Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      FT SeriesHigher for longer
      US interest rates add to ‘silent debt crisis’ in developing countries

      World Bank warns some high-debt, low-income nations face ‘nightmare’ rolling over their bonds

      Protests in Sri Lanka amid the country’s economic crisis in 2022
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Special ReportFTfm: Fixed Income
      Oversupply of US debt leaves few takers for Treasuries

      Issuance of $1tn-worth of government bonds in space of three months creates a glut as big buyers retreat

      A national debt clock button pinned to a suit pocket
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      FT SeriesHigher for longer
      Governments brace for fiscal reckoning from bond markets

      Investors say countries will have to get used to higher interest bills as borrowing costs soar

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      US interest rates
      BlackRock says investors set to face 5.5% long-term borrowing costs

      Asset manager points to ageing populations and fractious geopolitics pushing up 10-year Treasury yields

      BlackRock headquarters in New York
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Stocks rally and bond yields tumble as investors trim interest rate outlook

      S&P 500 has best day in six months after dovish messages from central banks

      A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      ExplainerJapanese government bonds
      What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

      Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

      Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      US Treasury to slow pace of longer-dated debt issuance

      Borrowing plans announced over summer helped push government bond yields to multiyear highs

      The US Treasury building
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Yen
      Yen under renewed pressure following BoJ policy tweak

      Currency sinks close to last intervention point after small adjustment to central bank policy

      Outside of Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Bank of Japan under pressure from weak yen and soaring yields

      Two-day policy meeting could end with changes to trading band for government bonds

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Central banks
      What will the Fed say about the outlook for interest rates?

      Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

      A montage of the buildings of the Fed, BoE and ECB
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