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GILT SUMMARY
GILT SUMMARY: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has scheduled a call with 120
business leaders at 1630BST, which will likely be an attempt to curry further
support for the Chequers Deal. 
- It has been a relatively quiet session for gilts so far with the short end
trading sideways. The benchmark 2-year gilt has traded within a 0.756/0.774%
range.
- The curve has flattened slightly since the open with the 2s30s edging down to
115.8bps from 116.6bps.
- The Dec Gilt future trades at 121.34 and has similarly held within a fairly
tight range.
- Inflation breakevens have held steady with the 5-year benchmark currently
trading at 3.100%.
- The short sterling futures strip is flat to 3.0 ticks higher. 
- Public sector net borrowing data for September came in better than expected
with the YTD figure falling to a 16-year low.

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