UK 10-year gilt yield reaches 5.40% as oil rally fuels inflation worries
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Brent's spike above $108 amid renewed Hormuz disruption risk is rekindling energy-driven inflation fears, prompting a broad selloff in developed-market sovereign bonds. UK 10-year gilt yields moved to post-2007 highs, with US Treasuries also near multi-decade peaks, tightening financial conditions and raising fiscal sensitivity ahead of the UK budget. A firmer dollar reinforces global risk-off dynamics and rate-hike expectations.
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UK government borrowing costs have climbed to their highest level since the 2007 financial crisis after a jump in oil prices stoked inflation fears and prompted investors to sell sovereign debt. Brent crude briefly rose as much as 6% to $108 a barrel, pushing up government bond yields in France, Germany, Italy and Japan as well. The UK 10-year gilt yield was 4.9% in July, and each 1 percentage point rise adds an estimated £12 billion to the Exchequer’s costs.
