Gloomy UK fiscal outlook points to lower yields & weaker sterling

The market reaction to today’s UK fiscal announcement has proven rather less eventful than the unfortunate “mini-budget” back in September. But while we think that the worst is over for the UK government bond market, we expect that sterling will remain under pressure as the UK economy heads for recession.

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