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NAB Morning Call
UK wages push Gilts-Bund spread to historic levels
Dec 17, 2024
Skye Masters, NAB's market strategist known for her keen insights into financial trends, dives into the surprising rise in UK wages and its impact on bond markets. She discusses how this has created a historic yield spread between UK and German bonds, reflecting significant monetary policy differences. Masters also analyzes the mixed signals from U.S. retail sales and the implications for consumer sentiment in Australia. Finally, she speculates on potential Federal Reserve rate cuts and their effects on U.S. Treasury yields.
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- The historic widening of the UK-German bond yield spread reflects contrasting monetary policies between the Bank of England and the European Central Bank.
- Mixed US retail sales data signals economic uncertainty, indicating potential shifts in consumer spending patterns in a higher-cost environment.
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Widening Bond Yield Differentials
The spread between UK and German bond yields has reached historic levels, reflecting diverging monetary policies between the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Recent data shows the BoE is contending with rising wages, leading to higher expectations of interest rate cuts, which contrasts sharply with the ECB’s policies aimed at curbing wage inflation. The 10-year gilt spread reportedly closed at 229 basis points, the widest since Germany’s reunification in 1990. This divergence indicates a significant shift in market sentiment towards the respective central banks' monetary policies and their economic outlooks.
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