Gilt yield tail spike ‘nothing to worry about’ amid Brexit fallout

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Gilt yield tail spike ‘nothing to worry about’ amid Brexit fallout

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An unfortunately timed Gilt auction recorded the highest yield tail — an indicator typically inversely proportional to an auction’s perceived success — in nearly a decade on Thursday, as several UK government ministers resigned over the draft Brexit agreement with the EU. But SSA bankers said that while the tail was “optically” bad, the wider context meant the Gilt sale had been a success.

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