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Gilts

  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Investors warn of lasting ‘risk premium’ in gilts following UK Budget

    Traders play down parallels with 2022 market crisis but say rise in borrowing costs will linger

    Rachel Reeves is seen outdoors, wearing a dark coat, with a focused expression
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    UK Budget spooks bond markets

    UK borrowing costs hit the highest level this year after Budget announcements sink in

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    FT live news
    Budget reaction wrap: a day of fallout after Reeves’ speech
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt sell-off intensifies

    Bond markets unnerved by scale of extra borrowing in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    The start of a new round of gilt market carnage?

    Parsing 101 words from the OBR

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK borrowing costs rise as Reeves’ spending plans unnerve investors

    Ten-year gilt yield hits five-month high after chancellor’s first Budget

    A close-up of British banknotes including £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes, featuring a portrait of King Charles III.
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Bond market braced for rise in UK debt issuance to £300bn this year

    Investment banks pencil in second-biggest annual gilt sales figure on record ahead of Labour’s first Budget

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Rachel Reeves’ new rules

    She learned this one simple trick… hopefully bond markets don’t HATE her

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Everything you always wanted to know about bonds (but were afraid to ask)

    A gascon’s guide to gilts

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Liz Truss’s mini-Budget: lessons from a moronic episode Premium content

    Central banks should not deny they will act in a crisis and Labour’s Budget is not another Truss moment

    Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in the House of Commons in 2022
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Pensions
    Pension de-risking: the pitfalls for retirement savers

    Bonds, traditionally seen as safe assets for pension pots, have been subject to huge fluctuations in recent years

    Illustration of people increasing in age crossing a mountain range
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Re-assessing the October 2022 market crisis (vibes-based edition)

    Seems legit

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Toby Nangle
    Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes

    In preparing her inaugural Budget, she would do well to ignore advice from market sages

    British Prime Minister Liz Truss and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    The great British gilt tilt

    Be not afeard

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    UK borrowing costs climb as Reeves walks ‘tightrope’ over spending plans

    Gap between yields on gilts and German bonds has reached widest in more than a year ahead of Budget

    Montage of chart, Bank of England building and Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    LexBlockchain
    Why selling gilts on the blockchain is just a token gesture Premium content

    Take-up of the technology faces significant obstacles and disrupting the UK’s status quo will be a struggle

    The Bank of England in the City of London
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    BoE urged to sell more short-dated gilts to boost market liquidity

    Investors and analysts call on central bank to broaden quantitative tightening to include maturities of one to three years

    The Bank of England
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    UK economy
    Some moderately cohesive thoughts on the UK’s economy

    Don’t all click at once

  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Global inflation
    UK government borrowing costs surge ahead of rival countries

    Gap between gilt and Treasury yields rises to highest level in nearly a year

    Pedestrians outside the Bank of England
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK financial crisis
    Liz Truss and the LASH

    Does a not-very-new paper vindicate the ex-PM?

    Liz Truss, former British Prime Minister, speaks at a podium during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. She is wearing a red outfit and the background is a vibrant blue.
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Did the Bank of England misunderestimate QT?

    It’s all about the gilt tilt

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Personal Finance
    How bonds became a serious investment choice again

    Geopolitical turmoil, smoke-and-mirrors fiscal planning and quantitative tightening: the risks are many — but now might still be the time to buy UK government bonds

    Image of UK flags with gilt edges and pound signs as the terminals of the flagpoles
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    M&G PLC
    Bond veteran Jim Leaviss to leave M&G

    UK asset management group hires Andrew Chorlton from Schroders as replacement

    M&G logo
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Our kinky curve

    Gilt yields are ever more in the eye of the beholder

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Labour could borrow more without UK bond market backlash, say investors

    Relaxing fiscal rules unlikely to provoke a Liz Truss-style gilts crisis, according to fund managers

    Rachel Reeves montage
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