Possible Contagion - UK 10 YR Test BOE10 Oct 2022 18:12
Hi Indy, am still here, I found it worrying HBR did NOT react to Brent increase, others not massively up. I've been watching 10YR UK yields rising steadily, to test BOE and pension fund liquidity - Quote UK borrowing costs shoot higher as Bank of England warns of pension 'contagion' -Its decision comes after eight auctions so far in which the Bank offered to buy £40bn worth of bonds but only succeeded in buying £5bn worth. The Bank has been purchasing the gilts using newly created money in a process known as quantitative easing.
However, analysts have warned that the intervention fails to adequately address the underlying issue.
Antoine Bouvet, senior rates strategist at ING, said: “The suspicion is that risk reduction by pension funds has been too limited so far.
“The question is do they have enough cash to meet new collateral requirements if the gilt market sells off again, as the gilt purchases by the Bank of England end this week.
"I think the fear is that the answer's no and that it will trigger the same snowball effect that we had two weeks ago.”
I think this Macro Issue is dominating the Market - If pension funds are forced into a fire sale. UK Base rates too low BOE fault IMO. Looking to add at discount to this SP. Waiting to see how this plays out. Cheers BH