{"id":26820,"date":"2025-09-20T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/26820\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:41:08","slug":"pound-falls-with-gilts-as-uk-borrowing-soars-above-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/26820\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Falls With Gilts as UK Borrowing Soars Above Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The pound headed for its worst week in more than a month and gilts declined as a report showing the UK budget deficit is overshooting forecasts renewed concerns about the outlook for the nation\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The release wraps up a week that has demonstrated the problems higher borrowing costs are causing British policymakers. Concerns over gilt market volatility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-18\/boe-plans-to-keep-qt-on-autopilot-upended-by-market-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">prompted the Bank of England<\/a> to slow sales of its bond holdings on Thursday, although that did little to bring down yields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pound headed for its worst week in more than a month and gilts declined as a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3473,1577,23503,14126,114,1575,184,234,85,46,23505,190,23504,1584,1299],"class_list":["post-26820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-bonds","tag-british-pound-spot","tag-budget-deficit","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-macro","tag-markets","tag-risk-premium","tag-taxes","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}