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...“This year the enormity of gilt supply is weighing slowly on the spread with [German] Bunds,” said Mike Riddell, bond fund manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...However, the longer-term decline of the defined benefit sector — such schemes are mostly closed to new members — means this source of demand will wane, Russell said....
...“The moves in long-end yields were nothing short of incredible; the gilt market was in freefall,” said Daniela Russell, head of UK rates strategy at HSBC....
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...“I think it is yield curve control in all but name,” said Russell Silberston, investment strategist at asset manager Ninety One....
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...Mike Riddell, a fund manager at Allianz Global Investors, said there was no reason why Britain could not run a large deficit as the Bank of England could resort to buying up a large slice of the new debt...
What to look for in the year ahead from journalists on the spot around the world
...In contrast, Daniela Russell, head of UK rates strategy at HSBC, forecast “a period of choppy consolidation in the coming weeks” as markets consider the economic outlook....
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
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