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The Bank of England held rates at 4% with a 7-2 vote and slowed its gilt sales pace to 70 billion pounds a year. Sterling then slipped to $1.3541 and the 10-year gilt yield rose 5 basis points to 4.67% after stronger US employment data lifted the dollar and US yields.
UK inflation is nearly twice the BoE's target.
The move reflects dollar strength driven by US data rather than UK policy, which mainly affects currency-linked import costs and sterling-priced feed purchases.
uk.finance.yahoo.comJaspreet Kalra, Naomi Rovnick, Canan SevgiliSep 18, 2025After 2,356 past bullish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.7%), and +0.4% over 20.
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Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
