Reversing britain’s bond-buying spree

Sovereign bond yields are ringing some alarm bells about the UK’s economic and fiscal outlook

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

Issue of the week: trouble in the gilt ...

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen unusually open debates and divergent views about the path of short-term interest rates among the committee members of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and t

The sale after 17 years of the last of the government’s stake in NatWest has led some to claim that this was good news for the banking sector. The stock overhang has been removed and the sale has got

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t