January 31, 2025 15:10 GMT
GILTS: Just Off Highs As Bonds Recover & Oil Sells Off, BoE & Month-End Eyed
GILTS
A bid in wider core global FI markets, coupled with potential month-end demand (given the size of related projections), allows gilts to rally in recent trade
- Weakness in crude oil also provides support.
- Futures still shy of session highs at 92.93, last +25 at 92.87.
- Bulls target the Dec 20 high (93.09). A break there would further deepen the threat to the medium-term bearish technical trend.
- Yields 1.5-5bp lower, curve bull steepens.
- 2s threatening the first clean break below 4.20% since early December.
- BoE-dated OIS showing 23.5bp of cuts for next week’s meeting, 44bp through May and 76bp through year-end.
- Dec ’25 BoE-dated OIS hit a dovish cycle extreme earlier today, briefly showing ~77bp of cuts.
- We continue to look for cuts in February and May, with the H2 market-implied rate cutting path still looking a little flat to us.
- SONIA futures flat to +5.0
- Expect our usual detailed BoE preview ahead of next week’s decision.
BoE Meeting |
SONIA BoE-Dated OIS (%)
Difference vs. Current Effective SONIA Rate (bp)
Feb-25
4.465
-23.6
Mar-25
4.418
-28.2
May-25
4.258
-44.3
Jun-25
4.186
-51.4
Aug-25
4.073
-62.7
Sep-25
4.037
-66.4
Nov-25
3.964
-73.6
Dec-25
3.941
-76.0
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