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🇬🇧 UK 10-year gilt yields break 5.00% for the first time since 2008. Back then, debt-to-GDP was 40%.
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🇬🇧 UK 10-year gilt yields break 5.00% for the first time since 2008. Back then, debt-to-GDP was 40%.

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Tuesday's DMO auction cleared 5-year gilts at 4.651%, up 42 bps from the prior sale. The 10-year gilt crossed 5.00% for the first time since 2008; the 30-year reached a 27-year high of 5.78%.

Table of government bond yields and daily changes for countries in Americas and EMEA regions across 2- to 30-year maturities.
UK gilt yields rose 12 basis points across the curve on May 12 as the 5-year Treasury Gilt Auction cleared at 4.651%. Source

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