Gilts are trading little changed.......>

GILT SUMMARY: Gilts are trading little changed from Wednesday's close despite

the rise in majority of Asian equities and the UK government managing to avoid

any embarrassment in second day of EU Withdrawal Bill debate in the house of

commons. 10-yr Gilt yield is 0.5bp lower at 1.284%.

- Markets also taking note of comments from Manfred Weber, close ally to Merkel,

that he was more confident about UK and EU resolving their differences in Brexit

talks after meeting with PM May and Davis. While the Sun newspaper says that PM

May is preparing to increase Brexit divorce bill offer to the EU in December to

kick start next round of talks.

- It is another busy day ahead in the UK with Oct retail sales released at

0930GMT, with consensus looking for a 0.2% m/m rise in total sales compared to a

fall of 0.8% in September. Then there is the Gilt supply with the re-opening of

10-yr Gilt and comments from a raft of BoE MPC members at a forum in Liverpool.

-  Mark Carney, Ben Broadbent, Jon Cunliffe, Jo Place, Dave Ramsden, Sam Woods

all appear at an economic forum at St George's Hall Liverpool at 1400GMT