Recent rise in gilt yields unlikely to herald upward trend

Building hopes of global economic recovery, the deterioration in the UK’s inflation outlook and growing fiscal worries have combined to push 10-year gilt yields above 2% today for the first time since May. Nonetheless, there remain good reasons to think that yields will struggle to rise further.

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