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UK 10-Year Gilt Yield Falls 1.7 Bps on Week to 5.356%

The UK 10-year gilt yield rose 3.1 basis points to 5.356% in late European trading on Friday, ending the week down 1.7 basis points. It had climbed to 5.449% before the US open on Oct. 20 before falling steadily to 5.310% early in the European session on Oct. 23. The 30-year yield fell 8.7 basis points on the week to 5.757%, while the two-year rose 3.6 basis points to 4.913%.

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The quiet weekly move in the 10-year masks a steeper curve story: the long end rallied hard while the front end sold off, a combination that points to shifting term-premium and rate-expectation dynamics rather than a uniform shift in sentiment. The 30-year's larger decline suggests duration demand or fiscal-risk repricing is doing more work than the headline number implies. Whether that curve move extends into the coming sessions, and whether the short end keeps firming, is the open question.

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