BoE widens gilt purchase operations to include index-linked gilts

Move comes in bid to temporarily absorb selling of ILGs in excess of market capacity

Jonathan Stapleton
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BoE widens gilt purchase operations to include index-linked gilts

The Bank of England (BoE) has announced it will widen the scope of its daily gilt purchase operations to include purchases of index-linked gilts.

The central bank said this enhancement to its operations will be in effect from today (11 October) until Friday (14 October) alongside its existing daily conventional gilt purchase auctions. It ...

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