{"id":614,"date":"2026-05-11T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:42:20","slug":"uk-borrowing-costs-rise-as-starmer-speech-fails-to-dispel-investor-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"UK borrowing costs rise as Starmer speech fails to dispel investor \u2018jitters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising inflation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/uk-economy-job-losses-iran-war-oil-pound-bonds-politics-starmer-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-speech-angela-rayner-wes-streeting-andy-burnham-catherine-west-may-elections-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cost of government borrowing has crept higher as Keir Starmer\u2019s crucial speech failed to dispel investor \u201cjitters\u201d in the bond markets over political instability combined with fears of rising inflation.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/11\/uk-gilt-yields-creep-higher-as-starmer-speech-fails-to-dispel-investor-jitters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bond yields creep higher on concerns about potential for political instability and rising inflation Business live \u2013 latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}