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Gilts

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Pension funds 💔 gilts

    For whom the bell tolls

  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Markets
    Has Starmer placated gilt investors?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    Keir Starmer, centre, speaks to parliament while Rachel Reeves, right, cries in the Houses of Parliament in London, England on July 2 2025
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Nervy markets put Reeves and Starmer on notice

    Investors are getting fed up of being used by governments around the world as a low-cost cash machine

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK economy
    Investor fright over Reeves’ tears shows fragility of UK finances

    Market fears that replacing chancellor would imperil fiscal rules

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a City of London skyline and a line of data
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Markets rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor and backs fiscal rules

    Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (left), Prime Minister Sir Keir (right) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting (second left)
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    BlackRock and Schroders bought gilts during market slump

    Big asset managers added to holdings in bet that sell-off sparked by doubts over Rachel Reeves’ future would be shortlived

    BlackRock logo
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Gilts rally as Bailey hints at reduction in BoE debt sales

    Central bank has come under pressure to slow quantitative tightening amid global bond sell-off

    BoE governor Andrew Bailey
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    BoE urged to curb bond sales investors say could ‘reignite’ sell-off

    ‘Quantitative tightening’ is driving up borrowing costs and piling pressure on public finances, according to fund managers

    The Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in London
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    How to slash government debt-to-GDP

    A cunning plan we don’t recommend

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Monetary Policy Committee UK
    The Bank of England’s balancing act

    QT stays in the the MPC’s hands… for now

  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    Oh no they’ve posted about quantitative tightening again

    QTful ones

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    UK turns to shorter-term borrowing as fiscal pressure mounts

    Head of Debt Management Office says demand for long-term gilts is waning

    A person enters the HM Treasury building
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    UK economy
    Reeves squeezed by rising borrowing costs and spending pressures

    Market turmoil adds strain to UK chancellor’s fiscal plans as fears over US debt increase

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a data background
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Bloomberg LP
    Bloomberg terminal outage hits traders

    Disruption to widely used markets data service affects UK and EU debt auctions

    Traders work at Bloomberg terminals on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Britain’s quantitative tightening will hurt us for a long, long time

    Ugly QT needs a rethink — fast

  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Britain’s post-Trussmatic stress

    Goldman grasps the long, spiky tail of the gilts crisis

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Special ReportRisk Management: Financial Institutions
    Policymakers fret over rising sovereign debt

    Warning of ‘snowball effect’ from higher borrowing as governments come under pressure to improve public finances

    A solemn man in a dark suit walks past ceremonial guards in ornate uniforms, with one soldier saluting against a backdrop of stone walls and flags
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Markets InsightSushil Wadhwani
    The UK needs to tackle Trump contagion risk for gilts

    Authorities should take action to encourage a ‘decoupling’ from moves in Treasury yields

    Bank Of England Governor Andrew Bailey
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Bank of England drops sale of long-dated bonds amid market turmoil

    Sell-off in 10- and 30-year gilts prompts central bank’s decision to sell only shorter maturity bonds in April 14 auction

    Flowers growing outside the Bank of England in London
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    UK borrowing costs soar to highest level since 1998

    Jump in yields on 30-year gilts comes as investors also dump US Treasuries

    Bank of England
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Uh oh, 30-year gilts are being weird again

    So long, sweet price

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    UK quantitative easing
    Where the Bank of England’s QE programme went wrong

    And what can still be done about it

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement as it happened: Reeves announces £14bn plan to fix Britain’s strained public finances

    UK chancellor forced to make last-minute savings to shore up the nation’s finances

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK economy
    Yields up, (long-dated) borrowing down?

    A short-cut for UK debt issuance

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Gilt investors brace for nearly £310bn in debt sales

    Near-record total will be a test of market confidence in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

    Montage of Bank of England, close-up of £50 banknote and UK government logo
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