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GILT SUMMARY
GILT SUMMARY: Gilts are pushing higher first thing Tuesday as the US's Chinese
tariff announcement on Monday has led to retaliation by Beijing.
- The Dec 18 Gilt future is up 6 ticks at 121.47, having traded in a range of
121.33-121.48.
- The shape of the Gilt curve remains flat to open the day, with 2-Yr yield down
0.4bps at 0.816%, 5-Yr yield down 0.4bps at 1.133%, 10-Yr down 0.4bps at 1.532%
and 30-Yr yield down 0.4bps at 1.873%.
- Short Sterling is up slightly, with most Red through Blue futures contracts up
by 1.0 tick.
- Quiet day on the UK economic data front, picks up Wednesday with CPI/PPI data
for August.
- Attention later this week on the Salzburg summit of EU leaders, kicking off
Wednesday.

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