BoE winds-up emergency bond-buying programme

£19.3bn of bonds sold following last year’s Mini Budget

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
clock • 1 min read
BoE winds-up emergency bond-buying programme

The Bank of England (BoE) has wound up the emergency bond-buying programme it began in September to stabilise the UK markets following the government's Mini Budget.

In a statement yesterday (12 January), the bank said it had completed its sales of the £19.3bn of temporary holdings of UK government bonds that had been purchased in Autumn last year. The purch...

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