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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    UK economy
    Labour intensifies push for growth to avoid ‘disastrous’ tax rises

    Punishing week on bond markets ends with UK government borrowing costs significantly higher

    Montage with Rachel Reeves, line chart and Bank of England logo
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Personal Finance
    What does the gilt sell-off mean for your money?

    Mortgages, pensions and investments likely to feel the effects of rising bond yields

    The facade of the Bank of England
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Gilts take the global strain

    As yields rise around the globe, UK government bonds have been put in a difficult place

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at a Labour party conference in September 2024
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    UK government borrowing costs stabilise near 16-year high

    Bonds steady after sell-off that threatens to wipe out room for extra borrowing under Labour’s budget rules

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK government seeks to soothe bond market nerves after borrowing costs soar

    Treasury vows to stick to its fiscal rules and says gilt markets functioning ‘in an orderly way’

    Line graph showing value of the pound against the dollar since 2023
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Sovereign bonds
    What’s up with bond yields?

    From borrowers to sorrowers

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Pound Sterling
    The sterling sell-off will continue until morale improves

    Ground pound

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Sovereign bonds
    Bond market ‘police’ are back as investors patrol spending plans

    Debt market flare-ups show growing pushback against governments’ loose fiscal policies

    View of busy street in Paris
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Explainer
    Has the bond market turned against Rachel Reeves?

    Rising UK borrowing costs raise risk that chancellor will have to impose tighter fiscal policy as soon as March

    A montage of Rachel Reeves and bar chart lines in the foreground
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK 10-year borrowing costs hit highest level since 2008

    Treasury seeks to reassure markets as gilt sell-off threatens the government’s ability to meet its fiscal rules

    The UK Treasury building and logo
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    UK economy
    UK long-term borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998

    Rising interest costs raise fears about chancellor’s ability to hit revised fiscal rules

    The London skyline
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    UK borrowing costs climb as ‘stagflation’ fear stalks gilt market

    Stubborn inflation and stalling growth have driven yields back to the highs reached after October’s Budget

    The City of London skyline
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Investors warn of lasting ‘risk premium’ in gilts following UK Budget

    Traders play down parallels with 2022 market crisis but say rise in borrowing costs will linger

    Rachel Reeves is seen outdoors, wearing a dark coat, with a focused expression
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    UK Budget spooks bond markets

    UK borrowing costs hit the highest level this year after Budget announcements sink in

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    FT live news
    Budget reaction wrap: a day of fallout after Reeves’ speech
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt sell-off intensifies

    Bond markets unnerved by scale of extra borrowing in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    The start of a new round of gilt market carnage?

    Parsing 101 words from the OBR

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK borrowing costs rise as Reeves’ spending plans unnerve investors

    Ten-year gilt yield hits five-month high after chancellor’s first Budget

    A close-up of British banknotes including £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes, featuring a portrait of King Charles III.
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Bond market braced for rise in UK debt issuance to £300bn this year

    Investment banks pencil in second-biggest annual gilt sales figure on record ahead of Labour’s first Budget

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Rachel Reeves’ new rules

    She learned this one simple trick… hopefully bond markets don’t HATE her

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Everything you always wanted to know about bonds (but were afraid to ask)

    A gascon’s guide to gilts

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Liz Truss’s mini-Budget: lessons from a moronic episode Premium content

    Central banks should not deny they will act in a crisis and Labour’s Budget is not another Truss moment

    Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in the House of Commons in 2022
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Pensions
    Pension de-risking: the pitfalls for retirement savers

    Bonds, traditionally seen as safe assets for pension pots, have been subject to huge fluctuations in recent years

    Illustration of people increasing in age crossing a mountain range
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Re-assessing the October 2022 market crisis (vibes-based edition)

    Seems legit

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Toby Nangle
    Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes

    In preparing her inaugural Budget, she would do well to ignore advice from market sages

    British Prime Minister Liz Truss and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng
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