Bank of England Tilts Bond Sales Toward Shorter Maturities
- Central bank worried about depletion of longer-dated QT bonds
- BOE sets out bond auction schedule for coming quarter
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The Bank of England tilted its bond sale program toward shorter tenors, a move it says will help ensure it doesn’t deplete its supply of long bonds faster than other maturities.
The central bank said it will sell £3.2 billion ($4.1 billion) of short-maturity bonds, £3 billion of medium-maturity and £1.95 billion of long bonds next quarter. That’s a change from the previous policy of splitting sales evenly across the three buckets.