March 07, 2025 15:44 GMT
GILTS: Cross-Market Cues Still Dominate, Bears Remain In Tech Control
GILTS
Cross-market cues dominate in afternoon trade, with the softer-than consensus U.S. labour market report and weakness in e-minis resulting in a modest net rally (a pullback from highs in Tsys was evident before fresh equity weakness kicked in).
- Futures traded as high as 92.63 before easing back to ~92.35 last.
- Bears remain in technical control, although the contract is still in oversold territory.
- Bulls have pierced the next couple of resistance levels and will ultimately look to close the gap to the Mar 4 low (93.06).
- Yields 2-4bp lower, 10s outperform.
- Dovish move in GBP STIRs seen alongside the bid in the long end.
- BoE-dated OIS shows 54bp of cuts through year-end, with the next 25bp cut once again fully discounted come the end of the June MPC.
- SONIA futures little changed to +9.5.
- Monthly economic activity data (Friday) and the latest S&P-KPMG-REC Report on Jobs (Monday) headline next week’s limited UK data schedule.
- Next week will also see the DMO propose and confirm the auction calendar for the first three weeks of FY25/26.
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