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MNI BRIEF: Market Cheered By BOE Short-End Gilt Sales - Hauser

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Rather than fearing Bank of England gilt sales, UK market participants have been cheerleaders for sales at the shorter end of the market, according to Andrew Hauser, Executive Director Markets

Hauser, giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, set out why the Bank had temporarily postponed gilt sales (MNI POLICY: BOE To Examine Gilt Sales Plan In Wake Of Turmoil) and then announced that it was pressing ahead with short and medium dated sales from the start of November as part of quantitative tightening. He said at the short-end of the curve there was significant dysfunction "because we owned so many of the gilts" and the market intelligence they had received was that participants, on the whole, wanted them to go ahead with their well-signaled sales.

In September, the Monetary Policy Committee sanctioned active gilt sales at a pace of around GBP10 billion a quarter subject to market conditions and Hauser's comments make clear that with the Bank focusing solely on short to medium dated gilt sales it now fully expects to keep the sales program going.

MNI London Bureau | +44 203-586-2223 | david.robinson@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 203-586-2223 | david.robinson@marketnews.com

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