Sentence examples for uk gilts from inspiring English sources

UK borrowing costs have risen today, as traders anticipate more UK gilts hitting the market (bond yields rise when prices fall).

12.59pm GMT The downgraded GDP & deficit targets have not alarmed City traders - the pound and UK gilts have barely moved.

"It needed to be made clear that this was a policy that would work best when there is no market for UK gilts [government bonds], and at the moment there is a very buoyant markets for UK gilts.

UK gilts, for example, continue to fall in the wake of the Bank of England's bond buying setback on Tuesday.

George Soros's Quantum Fund led a field of speculators who borrowed UK gilts only to sell them and buy them back later at cheaper prices.

"The largest bond investor in the world was saying that UK gilts were a no-go area, sitting on a bed of nitroglycerine," he said.

A 10-year UK gilt yields around  2 per cent today, but the low at the beginning of the year was 1.3 per cent.

This can only help to keep UK gilt yields lower for longer and may even reduce them further.

The last time UK gilt bond yields were close to these record low levels was in early 2015 and during the eurozone crisis in 2012.

Most of all we're concerned on pension - with the 15-year UK gilt yield now sub-3sub-3%ssure on the actuarial valuation may be growing.

In 2008 he says Global Bonds, UK Gilt and UK Index-Linked Gilts, Money Market, and Absolute Return funds were the top performing investment sectors.