More on the BoE operation to calm gilt, GBP market - ready to increase daily purchases

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More on the BoE operation to calm gilt, GBP market - ready to increase daily purchases

<p>The post on this is here:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/bank-of-england-says-launching-temporary-expanded-collateral-repo-facility-20221010/" target="_blank" data-article-link="true">Bank of England says launching temporary expanded collateral repo facility</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/boe-ready-buy-more-gilts-ahead-friday-deadline-2022-10-10/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Reuters have a summary/recap post up</a> if you want a little more:</p><ul><li>The Bank of England said it was ready to increase the size of its daily purchases of government bonds to ensure sufficient capacity ahead of the end of its emergency programme to calm recent turmoil in the gilt market which is due to end on Friday.</li><li>The BoE also said on Monday it would launch a temporary expanded collateral repo facility to help banks ease liquidity pressures facing their client funds caught up in the turmoil which threatened pension funds.</li></ul><p>---</p><p>GBP/USD is up a touch (not a lot) since my earlier post (linked above) on the breaking news:</p>

                This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at forexlive.com.

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