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UK Economy Reporter at Bloomberg News

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  • 3 days ago | hk.news.yahoo.com | Tom Rees

    【彭博】-- 英國央行決策者Catherine Mann表示,降息與退出量化寬鬆之間存在矛盾,並警告她的同僚,債券出售可能會推高長期殖利率進而阻礙經濟成長。 Mann周一表示,英國央行縮減債券資產負債表的影響無法通過降息輕易抵消,因為降息對短期和長期債券殖利率的影響不同。 「資產減持和資產出售可通過影響殖利率曲線的不同部分影響貨幣政策傳導,」她在聯儲會理事會在華盛頓主辦的會議上發表講話前發布的文本顯示。「如果規模足夠大,這需要納入我未來的利率決策考量中。」 英國央行正在逐步降息,以放鬆其限制性貨幣政策,同時通過所謂的量化緊縮來縮減其債券資產負債表。一些分析師認為,量化緊縮可能會導致長期英國國債殖利率的升幅超過英國央行的預期,而降息將給短期國債殖利率帶來下行壓力。 Mann之後在一次爐邊談話中警告,降息「並不能保證長期內我們會以相同幅度再次降息」。 「事實上,我們相當確定我們不會那樣做,所以這會造成緊張氛圍,」她補充道。 儘管英國央行堅稱其量化緊縮計畫在後台運行,對殖利率的影響很小,但Mann的評論表明存在對該計畫可能影響經濟的擔心。...

  • 4 days ago | bloomberg.com | Tom Rees

    Catherine Mann(Bloomberg) -- Bank of England rate-setter Catherine Mann said there’s a tension between cuts to interest rates and efforts to unwind quantitative easing, warning her colleagues that bond sales risk stunting the economy by holding up long-dated yields. Mann said Monday that the effects from the BOE’s run-off of its balance sheet of bonds cannot be easily offset by rate cuts as they influence short and long-dated bond yields differently.

  • 4 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Tom Rees

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  • 4 days ago | bloomberg.com | Joe Mayes |Tom Rees |Ellen Milligan

    Members of staff during a visit by Keir Starmer to the BAE Systems' Govan facility, in Glasgow, on June 2. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed a sweeping overhaul of the British military yet refused to commit to the full extent of spending increases that experts said is necessary to protect the UK from growing global threats.

  • 4 days ago | bloomberg.com | Tom Rees

    An employee works on a scanner on a production line near Oxford. (Bloomberg) -- British factories showed signs of “turning a corner” in May following a limited deal between Keir Starmer and Donald Trump’s governments to lower some US tariffs, a closely watched survey showed. S&P Global’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 46.4, up from 45.4 in April and a three-month high.

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Tom Rees
Tom Rees @tomelleryrees
9 May 25

ONS confirms our exclusive story that Ian Diamond has resigned as head of the national statistics body! It came after mounting pressures over the ONS's handling of a collapse in response rates to key household surveys. It had made its unemployment and employment figures uselss

Tom Rees
Tom Rees @tomelleryrees
21 Mar 25

Exclusive from us on a shake-up at the top of the ONS: - The ONS's deputy national statistician is leaving after string of high-profile problems with key economics data Read more below 👇 https://t.co/963szoTmoK via @economics

Tom Rees
Tom Rees @tomelleryrees
14 Mar 25

Great report card from Labour's first months in power from @PhilAldrick One of Starmer's pledges even gets a 1/10 score 😬 https://t.co/rL60BZk1d8 via @bpolitics