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  2. Gilt-edged securities - Wikipedia

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    Conventional gilts are denoted by their coupon rate and maturity year, e.g. 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 % Treasury Gilt 2055. The coupon paid on the gilt typically reflects the market rate of interest at the time of issue of the gilt, and indicates the cash payment per £100 that the holder will receive each year, split into two semi-annual payments.

  3. History of Federal Open Market Committee actions - Wikipedia

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    The effective federal funds rate over time, through December 2023. This is a list of historical rate actions by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC controls the supply of credit to banks and the sale of treasury securities. The Federal Open Market Committee meets every two months during the fiscal year.

  4. List of government bonds - Wikipedia

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    BTFs - bills of up to 1 year maturities; BTANs - 1 to 6 year notes; Obligations assimilables du Trésor (OATs) - 7 to 50 year bonds; TEC10 OATs - floating rate bonds indexed on constant 10year maturity OAT yields; OATi - French inflation-indexed bonds; OAT€i - Eurozone inflation-indexed bonds; Agence France Trésor

  5. X-Pyr - Wikipedia

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    Hondarribia, the Spanish-Basque border town where the X-Pyr race starts. The X-Pyr is an international multi-day "hike-and-fly" paragliding endurance race. The competition route traverses the Pyrenees mountain range from west to east, starting near Hondarribia, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay and finishing near the France-Spain border along the Mediterranean Sea.

  6. 1994 bond market crisis - Wikipedia

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    Throughout much of Europe, long-term interest rates were nearing 30-year lows, with France and Germany's rates being even lower than the US's at that time. [1] European investors predicted that short-term rates would continue to decline into 1994 and bring with them shrinking long-term rates, which would enhance their leverage on current bond ...

  7. 1976 sterling crisis - Wikipedia

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    Government borrowing for debt (10-year bond) increased to over 15% in the 1970s and early 1980s. The 1973 oil crisis caused an increase in the price of Brent Crude Initiation of the inflationary cycle is traced to Anthony Barber 's 1972 budget which was designed to return the Conservatives to power in an election expected in 1974 or 1975.

  8. Capital gains tax in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, there was a general exemption for individuals from paying any tax if gains were less than £1,000 in any given tax year, which runs from 6 April to 5 April in the UK. Now known as the Annual Exempt Allowance, it rose steadily until 2020–21 when the allowance was £12,300 for individuals and £6,150 for trusts (the allowance for ...

  9. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

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    The target rate remained at 5.25% for over a year, until the Federal Reserve began lowering rates in September 2007. The last cycle of easing monetary policy through the rate was conducted from September 2007 to December 2008 as the target rate fell from 5.25% to a range of 0.00–0.25%.