What do record low bond yields mean for the UK economy?

What do record low bond yields mean for the UK economy? - at MoneyWeek.com - the best of the week's international financial media.

Within the past ten days the real yield on the 50-year Index Linked gilt-edged security has fallen to just 0.9%. There are significant economic, equity and corporate implications for investors to consider.

Although the ultra-low nature of long-dated bond yields has elicited much media comment of late, the truth is that bond yields have been on a declining trend for quite a while. The reason that they are attracting such interest at the current time is that the end-March deadline for the submission of pension fund valuations to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is fast approaching.

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