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Amid alarming talk of World War 3, here are four ways to protect YOUR wealth from global turmoil: JEFF PRESTRIDGE
1 month ago

Amid alarming talk of World War 3, here are four ways to protect YOUR wealth from global turmoil: JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Daily Mail  

We live in scary times – some would say the most frightening since the missile crisis of 1962, when the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war over the Soviet Union’s decision to deploy weapons of mass destruction in Cuba. Of course, it is only a whisper – and as Matthew Savill, a director of military sciences at …

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UK Plans Trial to Issue Blockchain-Based Gilts Within Two Years
1 month, 1 week ago

UK Plans Trial to Issue Blockchain-Based Gilts Within Two Years

Live Mint  

-- The UK plans to begin issuing digital gilts within the next two years, as the government latches onto technology it’s been slow to embrace. The digital shift comes as the government embarks on a £297 billion borrowing spree, the second-largest borrowing slate on record, with sales expected to remain elevated for years. For its part, the Debt Management Office …

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UK debt woe as borrowing costs surge again amid fresh market jitters
1 month, 2 weeks ago

UK debt woe as borrowing costs surge again amid fresh market jitters

Daily Mail  

UK borrowing costs hit a post-Budget peak yesterday Yields on ten-year UK bonds – known as gilts – surpassed levels seen last week to reach a new one-year high of 4.541 per cent. Debt shock: Yields on ten-year UK bonds – known as gilts – surpassed levels seen last week to reach a new one-year high of 4.541% That has …

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Investors brace for £300bn borrowing binge in Rachel Reeves' Budget
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Investors brace for £300bn borrowing binge in Rachel Reeves' Budget

Daily Mail  

Government borrowing costs have hit their highest level since Labour came to power as global investors brace for the Chancellor to unleash a £300billion borrowing binge. The rate has surged from 3.75 per cent in mid-September amid concern on the bond markets about the Chancellor's borrowing plans and her decision to significantly loosen debt rules. Investors are braced for the …

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Bonds to be sold to savers amid fears of lack of demand for British debt
10 months ago

Bonds to be sold to savers amid fears of lack of demand for British debt

The Telegraph  

Ordinary savers will be able to buy Government bonds directly from the Treasury in a move that will put individual investors on a par with big City institutions for the first time. The Debt Management Office will allow retail investors to take part in auctions of gilts, as UK government bonds are known, rather than having to wait to buy …

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PNB Gilts Q3 FY24 results: Revenue increased by 29.83% YoY & loss at ₹15.47Cr
10 months, 4 weeks ago

PNB Gilts Q3 FY24 results: Revenue increased by 29.83% YoY & loss at ₹15.47Cr

Live Mint  

PNB Gilts Q3 FY24 Results Live: PNB Gilts declared their Q3 FY24 results on 24 Jan, 2024. It is noteworthy that PNB Gilts had declared a profit of ₹6.09cr in the previous fiscal year same period. PNB Gilts has delivered a 4.26% return in the last 1 week, 72.89% return in the last 6 months, and 15.91% YTD return. PNB …

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Sunak embarks on £206bn debt binge as Britain's bond bubble bursts
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sunak embarks on £206bn debt binge as Britain's bond bubble bursts

The Telegraph  

Vivek Paul, chief investment strategist for the UK at BlackRock, warned this week that the bigger the promises, “the greater the likelihood of the return of the bond vigilantes”. Yet he’s not considered a “bond king” capable of rattling politicians in the way Pimco’s billionaire co-founder Bill Gross once was. Institutional investors don’t tend to jump up and down.” Former …

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Retirement giant backs UK gilts amid bond market rout
1 year, 2 months ago

Retirement giant backs UK gilts amid bond market rout

The Telegraph  

The UK’s biggest long-term savings and retirement business has started buying gilts for the first time in two years despite a renewed bout of bond market turmoil. Phoenix Group, which manages £269bn on behalf of 12 million customers, said it now believed gilts offered “good value” relative to other assets and had started moving money into British government debt. Phoenix, …

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Government bonds and pound rally amid pressure for mini-budget U-turn
2 years, 2 months ago

Government bonds and pound rally amid pressure for mini-budget U-turn

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy UK government bonds and the …

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Bank of England signals it won't keep borrowing costs down as it rejects £1.9bn of gilts sales
2 years, 2 months ago

Bank of England signals it won't keep borrowing costs down as it rejects £1.9bn of gilts sales

The Telegraph  

It came as a top Bank official urged policymakers to increase interest rates aggressively to curb inflation. Ms Mann, who voted to increase interest rates by 0.75 percentage points last month, said history suggested price rises were more likely to be “stabilised using the front-loaded strategy”, even if policymakers had to reverse course later. Julian Jessop, an independent economist and …

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The U.K. is staring into an economic abyss
2 years, 2 months ago

The U.K. is staring into an economic abyss

The Hindu  

It took the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, just 25 minutes to unleash havoc when he unveiled his mini-Budget on September 23. In place of policies to boost the United Kingdom’s economy to achieve a promised 2.5% growth, the Chancellor offered promises of sunlit uplands simply as a result of reversing recent tax rises, abolishing the top …

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How chaos in pension funds forced Bailey to step in
2 years, 2 months ago

How chaos in pension funds forced Bailey to step in

The Telegraph  

The central bank delayed plans to sell bonds and started buying them instead on Wednesday to stabilise what it described as “dysfunctional markets”. As former pensions minister Baroness Altmann puts it, pension funds had become victims of "reckless conservatism" having been encouraged to park much of their cash into gilts by regulators. The Bank “operational independence”, meaning the Government sets …

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Liz Truss sails into uncharted waters – without Bank of England support
2 years, 3 months ago

Liz Truss sails into uncharted waters – without Bank of England support

The Telegraph  

But as well as the Bank going from big buyer to big seller, there are signs foreign investors are less keen than they once were to hold sterling assets. Shreyas Gopal at Deutsche Bank says “significantly” higher yields on gilts may be needed to tempt international investors to fund large-scale borrowing. Ensuring markets can digest the volume of bonds depends …

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