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...Rob Wood, economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, predicted that the BoE would start cutting interest rates from their 16-year high of 5.25 per cent from June....
...Gold has been on a searing 16-month rally, surging 30 per cent from just above $1,600 per troy ounce in late 2022, supported primarily by record buying by central bank emerging markets after the US weaponised...
...But several analysts say none of the factors that have driven gold’s bull run over the past 16 months are the likely catalyst for this recent rally....
...The unlocking of retail access to gilt sales comes as the UK faces daunting borrowing needs, with the government’s gross financing requirement estimated at about £277bn for the 2024-25, 16 per cent higher...
...Prices in swaps markets signalled traders’ belief that the BoE remains likely to cut benchmark rates from their 16-year high of 5.25 per cent by August at the latest, although the bank is expected to keep...
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...The so-called spread, or gap, between 10-year borrowing costs in Italy and Germany sank to 1.16 percentage points on Thursday, its lowest level since November 2021, before rising back to 1.28 percentage...
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...In November the Office for Budget Responsibility estimated the government’s gross financing requirement would be £277bn in 2024-25, about 16 per cent higher than the UK’s debt sales this year....
...But Huw Pill, BoE chief economist, last week said inflation would not need to return all the way to 2 per cent for the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to start cutting rates from their current 16...
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...The government’s gross financing requirements for the next financial year are forecast at £277bn, 16 per cent up on this year....
...Interest rate-sensitive 2-year gilt yields rose 0.16 percentage points to 4.3 per cent, the biggest daily rise since August....
...The MSCI World index, a broad gauge of global developed market equities, has surged by 16 per cent since late October and is up 22 per cent this year — its best performance for four years....
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...Bond markets have only partially recovered from a sharp sell-off that took benchmark Treasury yields to a 16-year high in October....
...The 10-year US Treasury yield fell back on Monday after rising above 5 per cent for the first time in 16 years, continuing the recent sharp swings in global bond markets....
...Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries were down 0.08 percentage points in late afternoon trading in New York at 4.73 per cent, having earlier hit a 16-year high of 4.88 per cent....
...US Treasury yields climbed to a 16-year high on Monday, as a global bond rout resumed following a brief reprieve at the end of last week....
...The yield on 30-year US Treasuries hit a 16-year high on Tuesday, as a sell-off in global bond markets pushed equities down and rocked currencies such as the yen and the rouble....
...Treasury yields rose to their highest level in 16 years and global stocks sank on Wednesday as nervous investors weighed up signs of US economic resilience to higher interest rates....
...The yield on long-term UK government bonds surged 0.08 percentage points on Friday to 5.16 per cent, the highest level since 1998....
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