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Interest-rate sensitive two-year gilt yields leapt to their highest since October 2008 at 3.345%, an increase of 23 basis points (bps) since Friday's close, after the market was shut on Monday for ...
Gilt-edged securities, also referred to as gilts, are bonds issued by the UK Government. The term is of British origin, and then referred to the debt securities issued by the Bank of England on behalf of His Majesty's Treasury , whose paper certificates had a gilt (or gilded ) edge, hence the name.
British government bond prices soared on Wednesday after the Bank of England said it would buy long-dated bonds to bring calm to the market, although analysts had doubts about how long the respite ...
Short-dated conventional gilt yields, which move in the opposite direction to the price, were down around 25-27 basis points (bps) on the day as of 0926 GMT - only partially reversing rises of ...
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( October 2010 ) This is a list of categories of government bonds around the world.
The real yield of any bond is the annualized growth rate, less the rate of inflation over the same period. This calculation is often difficult in principle in the case of a nominal bond, because the yields of such a bond are specified for future periods in nominal terms, while the inflation over the period is an unknown rate at the time of the ...
The yield on 10-year gilts – which is a proxy for the effective interest rate on public borrowing – edged slightly lower after Ms Truss was announced as the new Tory leader, but at 2.94% at ...
(Bank of America) Merrill Lynch High-Yield Master II; Barclays High-Yield Index; Bear Stearns High-Yield Index; Citi US High-Yield Market Index (Credit Suisse) First Boston High-Yield II Index; S&P US Issued High-Yield Corporate Bond Inex