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UK Gilt Prices Rocket After Bank of England Steps Into Market
Date: September 28, 2022
By Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -British government bond prices soared on Wednesday after the Bank of England said it would buy long-dated bonds in an effort to bring calm to the market and shelved plans to sell its stock of gilts for the time being. Finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng set out a...
Bank of England Statement on Purchase of Long-Dated Bonds
Date: September 28, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England said on Wednesday it would start a temporary programme of bond purchases to stabilise the market, and postpone the planned start of its gilt sale programme. Below is the full text of the central bank’s statement: “As the Governor said in his statement on Monday, the Bank is...
Euro Zone Yields at Multi-Year Highs, Italian Bonds Underperform
Date: September 26, 2022
By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) -Euro zone government bond yields jumped to multi-year highs amid expectations that central banks will keep tightening their monetary policy despite recession risks and a new sell-off in British gilts. Meanwhile, the spread between Italian and German yields widened after the rightist coalition won a clear majority in Sunday’s elections. Italian...
Investors Dump Global Bond and Equity Funds in the Week Ended Sep.21
Date: September 23, 2022
(Reuters) – Investors withdrew money from global bond and equity funds in the week ended September 21, with caution creeping in ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting in which further rate hikes were expected to tame soaring inflation. Investors exited a net $7.32 billion of global bond funds, marking their biggest weekly net selling...
Sovereign Bond Yields Not yet Reached a Summit – Reuters Poll
Date: September 20, 2022
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – The latest turmoil in major sovereign debt markets is far from over as bond strategists in a Reuters poll expected yields to stay elevated well into next year, with risks firmly skewed towards their moving higher than currently predicted. More than a decade of rock-bottom sovereign bond yields came...
UK 10-year Bonds Head for Biggest Monthly Fall Since 1986
Date: August 30, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British government bonds tumbled again on Tuesday, catching up with losses for U.S. and German debt following a public holiday on Monday as markets digested remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Ten-year British government bond yields are on course for their biggest monthly rise since September 1986 –...