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...A rush of money from private investors into gilts comes as the yield — the annualised return delivered if the bond is held to maturity — on the two-year gilt has risen from about 4 per cent to 4.4 per cent...
...Reporting by Mary McDougall, Moira O’Neill, Chris Flood, James Pickford, and Stefan Wagstyl...
...“I still think the Fed wants to cut once at least this year — but they’re in no rush to do it and they’ll wait for more data to come in to give them more visibility into inflation,” said Ken Shinoda, portfolio...
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Short positions in UK government debt this week fell to their lowest level since at least 2006
...US and European corporate bond markets have started September with a bang, as high-grade companies rush to exploit strong investor demand for debt ahead of possible interest rate rises on both sides of the...
...The UN’s top environmental agency chief has warned that a rush into experimental techniques to cool the atmosphere by partially blocking the sun risked harming wildlife, oceans, the ozone layer and crops...
...The Fed should be “thoughtful, take our time, not rush to judgment and not make declarations”, Daly said....
...We know there’s been a rush of people buying gilts this year. A government-appointed dealer for UK debt said its retail trading volume in July was 19 times higher than the same month last year....
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...Still, equities have nevertheless run up sizeable gains this year, driven largely by excitement around the possibilities of artificial intelligence prompting investors to rush in to a handful of large technology...
...The latest top official to back this view was Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed, who on Thursday said the central bank does not need to “rush to any decisions” about interest rates at a time...
...Cosentini said the first days of 2024 were the worst, when his hospital had to rush to add doctors and nurses and create new wards “because there were too many sick people”....
...Marc Filippino Mary says that’s not very helpful for the Bank of England....
...The rush for lithium is worldwide....
...However, funds’ bets on further dollar weakness could be caught out if investors suddenly rush for havens in the event of a crisis....
...“If I was in this position as an individual and I thought that the next government might put the limit back in, I’d fill my boots in the next two years, have a bit of a gold rush, and then crystallise on...
...For bond giant Pimco, the good news is, as chief investment officer Daniel Ivascyn told my colleagues Mary McDougall and Katie Martin, flows have “materially improved” this year after a torrid 2022 when...
...During the festive season, the hustle and bustle of the city’s centre ramps up as the Milanese rush to buy gifts and visitors flock to town....
...His plan was to walk away several feet, then take a long look at me and the picture as we stood side by side, then rush up to the portrait and dash at it in a kind of fury.”...
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