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...But he said he did not think recent readings had “really changed the overall story” of price pressures easing to 2 per cent....
...The price of gold has surged to a record high, driven by growing expectations of US interest rate cuts, investors hunting for haven assets and months of prodigious buying by central banks and Chinese investors...
...The probability of the first 0.25 percentage point cut being delivered by June rose from about 50 per cent to 60 per cent, with traders moving to price in three cuts by the end of the year....
...But not everyone believes gold prices are heading for a fall....
...DWAC has been popular among retail traders who have helped send its share price up almost 300 per cent over the past six months....
...Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was 4.5 per cent, compared with expectations of 4.6 per cent....
...This article has been amended to make clear that there has been a fall in UK consumer price inflation, not consumer prices...
...Traders in swaps markets moved to fully price three 0.25 percentage point cuts in 2024....
...For existing bonds, your platform will show the price of the bond and the coupon rate, but the annualised return you will receive if you hold it to maturity is harder to gauge if the price differs significantly...
...in producer prices, viewed as a leading indicator of consumer price inflation....
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...Retail investors will be given the average price of the auction and will not have to pay any dealing fees, unlike for gilts bought through platforms in the secondary market....
...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....
...Traders in swaps markets moved to price at least three cuts by the end of the year, up from two or three cuts ahead of the Treasury select committee hearing....
...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,...
...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....
...“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...
...Month on month, consumer prices declined by 0.6 per cent....
...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....
...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...
...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....
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...Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was 5.1 per cent, the same level as the previous month and higher than the 4.9 per cent predicted by economists....
...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...
...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....
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