Bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising inflation
The cost of government borrowing has crept higher as Keir Starmer’s crucial speech failed to dispel investor “jitters” in the bond markets over political instability combined with fears of rising inflation.
The yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday.

Basically bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
When you look at the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday, the implications are hard to ignore.
The bigger issue here is bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. That changes the calculation.
Think about it: bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. That speaks volumes.
Basically the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
If bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Considering the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
The fact that the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday really puts things into perspective.
The bigger issue here is the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday. That changes the calculation.
In other words bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. Curious to see how this develops.
So the bottom line is bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. Wonder how this will land.
On one hand bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising. But at the same time the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday.
Think about it: the yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday. That speaks volumes.
Reading that bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising — hard to argue with the logic there.
The yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year UK government bonds (known as gilts) rose eight basis points (or 0.08 of a percentage point) to 5% on Monday. Meanwhile bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising.