Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The UK's Debt Management Office (DMO) plans to sell £15bn of green gilts this year. The 12-year bond will mature in July 2033, and is priced at a yield of about 0.9 percent. The money raised by the bonds are earmarked for environmental spending, such as on projects including flood defences, renewable energy, or carbon capture and storage. [14]
The British government debt is rising due to a gap between revenue and expenditure. Total government revenue in the fiscal year 2015/16 was projected to be £673 billion, whereas total expenditure was estimated at £742 billion. Therefore, the total deficit was £69 billion. This represented a rate of borrowing of a little over £1.3 billion ...
On 31 October 2014 the UK Government announced that it would redeem the 4% consols in full in early 2015. [2] It did so on 1 February 2015, and redeemed the 3 1 ⁄ 2 % and 3% bonds between March and May of that year. The final 2 3 ⁄ 4 % and 2 1 ⁄ 2 % bonds were redeemed on 5 July 2015. [3]
Government bonds and the pound have steadied at the start of London trading as the Bank of England’s bond-buying programme draws to a close. ... yields on UK 30-year gilts fell back by 3.6% to 4 ...
The yield on a 30-year UK government bond hit 5.115% at one stage on Wednesday morning, which is the highest level since September 1998.
For Fitch, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is BBB− or higher. Bonds rated BB+ and below are considered to be speculative grade, sometimes also referred to as "junk" bonds. [104] Fitch Ratings typically does not assign outlooks to sovereign ratings below B− (CCC and lower) or modifiers.
* The Bank of England has been forced into emergency bond-buying to stem a sharp sell-off in Britain's 2.1 trillion pound ($2.3 trillion) government bond market that threatens to wreak havoc in ...
Citi World Government Bond Index (WGBI) FTSE UK Gilts Index Series; J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index; Most traded government bonds. Country Issuer Bond Type