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...in producer prices, viewed as a leading indicator of consumer price inflation....
...Mary McDougall...
...a result of price rises....
...The CME, where the Comex futures contract for gold is traded, reported a three-month high in a measure of volatility that indicates options traders have been positioning for bullion prices to rise....
...The slowdown in total pay growth across the economy was slightly sharper than analysts had expected — total pay growth was forecast at 5.7 per cent — leading traders to price in a slightly higher chance...
...Prices are still some way below the inflation-adjusted record of well above $3,000 per troy ounce hit in 1980 and some analysts say the current rally shows there is a firm floor under the price....
...Benchmark German government bond yields have risen from 2.03 per cent to 2.43 per cent since the start of January, reflecting a fall in prices....
...As well as February’s unexpected increase in inflation to 3.2 per cent, separate data this week showed a 0.6 per cent month-on-month surge in producer prices....
...The bond can be held within a tax-efficient individual savings account and a self-invested personal pension....
...Conventional gilts redeem at £100, so if the price quoted is less than that, you will receive a profit when the bond matures....
...House prices also rose compared with 12 months earlier for the first time in more than a year last month, according to figures published earlier this month by Nationwide....
...European government bond yields surged on Thursday, reflecting a fall in prices, after the downturn in business activity eased in February with the services sector ending a six-month run of contraction,...
...UK government bonds led a global rally on Tuesday as Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told a parliamentary committee that the UK didn’t need inflation to come back to its 2 per cent target before it...
...In practice, however, it’s all a bit more complicated . . . those who know more about this than me, any thoughts to mary.mcdougall@ft.com will be warmly received....
...The company’s net sales fell 2 per cent to $5.1bn in the three months to November compared to a year earlier, missing analyst expectations by almost 4 per cent, as price increases struggled to offset lower...
...“As QT progresses, it remains unclear which investors will absorb the additional supply of government bonds,” the report said, adding that more price-sensitive investors “could put upward pressure on yields...
...“The surge in prices of the pandemic and energy crisis will soon be a bad memory,” said Thomas Pugh, economist at audit firm RSM UK, adding that a further near-term drop in inflation could allow the BoE...
...German government bond yields fell reflecting a rise in prices as official data showed headline inflation fell to 2.9 per cent in December, with interest rate sensitive two-year Bund yields down 0.025 percentage...
...The UK Treasury must do more to ensure government debt is issued at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers ahead of a record year for gilt sales, a cross-party group of MPs has warned....
...Two-year gilt yields rose 0.06 percentage points to 4.29 per cent, reflecting a fall in prices, having been flat on the day ahead of the announcement....
...Traders in swaps markets moved to price a 72 per cent probability that the Bank of England will deliver its first quarter-point rate cut by June, up from a 40 per cent chance before official figures on Wednesday...
...cent in the final quarter compared with the previous one, pushing the UK into a technical recession....
...Traders now price a 66 per cent chance of a first interest rate cut in April, down from around 70 per cent ahead of the announcement....
...The changing economic outlook has driven up swap rates in recent weeks, which lenders use to price their mortgage deals....
...Traders in swaps markets moved to price a 57 per cent probability of the first quarter-point rate cut by May, from a 62 per cent chance ahead of the announcement....
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