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Will gilts shrug off this week’s Budget?

The possibility of looser fiscal policy than previous planned in the upcoming UK Budget on 30th October suggests the risks to our forecast that the 10-year gilt yield will fall to 3.50% by end-2025 are skewed to the upside, even if a repeat of the upheaval in the gilt market that we saw two years ago is highly unlikely.

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