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Gilt-edged securities, also referred to as gilts, are bonds issued by the UK Government. The term is of British origin, and then referred to the debt securities issued by the Bank of England on behalf of His Majesty's Treasury , whose paper certificates had a gilt (or gilded ) edge, hence the name.
The yield on a gilt is the amount of money an investor receives for owning the debt and is represented as a percentage of its price. When a bond price falls, its yield rises.
British government bond prices soared on Wednesday after the Bank of England said it would buy long-dated bonds to bring calm to the market, although analysts had doubts about how long the respite ...
On the opening of the markets, yields on UK 30-year gilts fell back by 3.6% to 4.38%, while 10-year gilt yields moved 5.9% lower to 3.93%. Meanwhile, the pound was 0.6% higher at 1.131 against the ...
The real yield of any bond is the annualized growth rate, less the rate of inflation over the same period. This calculation is often difficult in principle in the case of a nominal bond, because the yields of such a bond are specified for future periods in nominal terms, while the inflation over the period is an unknown rate at the time of the ...
(Bank of America) Merrill Lynch High-Yield Master II; Barclays High-Yield Index; Bear Stearns High-Yield Index; Citi US High-Yield Market Index (Credit Suisse) First Boston High-Yield II Index; S&P US Issued High-Yield Corporate Bond Inex
Short-dated conventional gilt yields, which move in the opposite direction to the price, were down around 25-27 basis points (bps) on the day as of 0926 GMT - only partially reversing rises of ...
Issued By: Agence France Trésor, the French Debt Agency OATs. BTFs - bills of up to 1 year maturities; BTANs - 1 to 6 year notes; Obligations assimilables du Trésor (OATs) - 7 to 50 year bonds