gilts
Investment
Government bonds jumped on Wednesday on rumours the Bank of England could be moving closer to increasing its £200bn "money-printing" programme to buoy the recovery.
23 September 2010
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Bonds
Investors are continuing to pile into gilts as fears deepen that the global economy could be teetering on the brink of a double-dip recession.
25 August 2010
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Bonds
M&G head of retail fixed income Jim Leaviss believes government bonds still offer value despite the yield on the 10-year gilt approaching historic lows last week.
23 August 2010
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Bonds
The Debt Management Office has raised almost half of its bond sales target for this financial year in just four months on continued strong demand for gilts.
04 August 2010
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Bonds
The Bank of England has made a £5.5bn full-year loss on the assets bought under its quantitative easing (QE) programme to prop up the battered UK economy.
28 July 2010
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Bonds
Pimco, the world's biggest bond manager, has turned bullish on UK government debt, just six months after it warned gilts were resting "on a bed of nitroglycerin".
14 July 2010
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