Central banks flinch as UK bond market faces collapse

G7 financial markets avoided a threatened crisis September 28 when the Bank of England announced £45 billion of emergency government bond purchases. That amounts to an emergency easing of monetary policy after months of coordinated rate hikes by most of the world’s central banks. The British central bank, the world’s second oldest, had no choice: […]

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