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Interest rates. The Bank of England increased interest rates above the 0.5 per cent ‘emergency levels’ they were cut to in 2009 for the first time in August 2018.
Markets are now speculating whether the central bank made the right decision to move before the outcome of the Brexit negotiations is known.
Markets. Movements in the bond and currency markets are a barometer of investor expectations about a country’s economic prospects.
Selling bonds through the Debt Management Office is the main way the UK government borrows money to fund the gap between what it spends and the money it receives.
A rise in the premium, or yield, demanded by markets for loaning money means funding the deficit becomes more expensive.
Sourse: ig.ft.com (2018).