The yield on United Kingdom 10Y Bond Yield eased to 4.57% on August 11, 2025, marking a 0.04 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has fallen by 0.04 points, though it remains 0.65 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. UK 10 Year Gilt Bond Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

As of July 18, 2025, the major economy with the highest yield on 10-year government bonds was Turkey, with a yield of ** percent. This is due to the risks investors take when investing in Turkey, notably due to high inflation rates potentially eradicating any profits made when using a foreign currency to investing in securities denominated in Turkish lira. Of the major developed economies, United Kingdom had one the highest yield on 10-year government bonds at this time with **** percent, while Switzerland had the lowest at **** percent. How does inflation influence the yields of government bonds? Inflation reduces purchasing power over time. Due to this, investors seek higher returns to offset the anticipated decrease in purchasing power resulting from rapid price rises. In countries with high inflation, government bond yields often incorporate investor expectations and risk premiums, resulting in comparatively higher rates offered by these bonds. Why are government bond rates significant? Government bond rates are an important indicator of financial markets, serving as a benchmark for borrowing costs, interest rates, and investor sentiment. They affect the cost of government borrowing, influence the price of various financial instruments, and serve as a reflection of expectations regarding inflation and economic growth. For instance, in financial analysis and investing, people often use the 10-year U.S. government bond rates as a proxy for the longer-term risk-free rate.

As of December 2024, all United Kingdom government debt securities were returning positive yields, regardless of maturity. This places the yield of both UK short term bonds and long term bonds above that of major countries like Germany, France and Japan, but lower than the United States. What are government bonds? Government bonds are debt instruments where a certain amount of money is given to the issuer, in exchange for regular payments of interest over a fixed period. At the end of this period the issuer then returns the amount in full. Bonds differ from a regular loan through how they can be traded on financial markets once issued. This ability to trade bonds makes it more complex to measure the return investors receive from bonds, as the price they buy a bond for on the market may differ from the price the same bond was initially issued at. The yield is therefore calculated as what investors can expect to receive based on current market prices paid for the bond, not the value it was issued at. In total, UK government debt amounted to over 2.4 trillion British pounds in 2023 – with the majority being comprised of different types of UK government bonds. Why are inverted yield curves important? UK government bond yields over recent years have taken on a typical shape, with short term bonds having a lower yield than bonds with a maturity of 10 to 20 years. The higher yield of longer-term bonds compensates investors for the higher level of uncertainty in the future. However, if investors are sufficiently worried about both a short term economic decline, and low long term growth, they may prefer to purchase short term bonds in order to secure assets with regular interest payments in the here and now (as opposed to shares, which can lose a lot of value in a short time). This can lead to an inverted yield curve, where shorter term debt has a higher yield. Inverted yield curves are generally seen as a reliable indicator of a recession, with inverted yields occurring before most recent U.S. recessions. The major exception to this is the recession from the coronavirus pandemic – but even then, U.S. yield curves came perilously close to being inverted in mid-2019.

In June 2025, the average yield on ten-year government bonds in the United States was **** percent. This was the ******* of the selected developed economies considered in this statistic. Bonds and yields – additional information The bond yield indicates the level of return that the investor can expect from a given type of bond. The government of Italy, for instance, offered the investors **** percent yield on ten-year government bonds for borrowing their money in June 2025. In the United States, government needs are also financed by selling various debt instruments such as Treasury bills, notes, bonds and savings bonds to investors. The largest holders of U.S. debt are the Federal Reserve and Government accounts in the United States. The major foreign holders of the United States treasury securities are Japan, Mainland China, and the United Kingdom.

As of December 2024, the countries with the highest 10-year yields are the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia with 4.68, 4.38 and 4.21 percent, respectively. Of the largest economies by GDP, the United States saw the sharpest fall in absolute terms for 10-year government bond yields due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. From a level of 1.51 percent in January 2020, yields on 10-year government bonds fell to 0.65 percent by April 2020, and had further fallen to 0.53 percent by July 2020 before starting to recover towards the end of the year. Conversely, countries that went into 2020 with already low bond yields like Japan, Germany and France actually saw a small increase in March 2020 - although these already low yields mean that these small changes are significant in relative terms.

United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data was reported at 75.984 USD bn in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 68.965 USD bn for Aug 2018. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 43.047 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 501 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 240.209 USD bn in Mar 2010 and a record low of 122.000 USD mn in Mar 1977. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data was reported at 525.019 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 480.421 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data is updated monthly, averaging 139.238 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 919.629 USD bn in Aug 2007 and a record low of 25.000 USD mn in Jan 1977. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

As of July 22, 2025, the yield for a ten-year U.S. government bond was 4.38 percent, while the yield for a two-year bond was 3.88 percent. This represents an inverted yield curve, whereby bonds of longer maturities provide a lower yield, reflecting investors' expectations for a decline in long-term interest rates. Hence, making long-term debt holders open to more risk under the uncertainty around the condition of financial markets in the future. That markets are uncertain can be seen by considering both the short-term fluctuations, and the long-term downward trend, of the yields of U.S. government bonds from 2006 to 2021, before the treasury yield curve increased again significantly in the following years. What are government bonds? Government bonds, otherwise called ‘sovereign’ or ‘treasury’ bonds, are financial instruments used by governments to raise money for government spending. Investors give the government a certain amount of money (the ‘face value’), to be repaid at a specified time in the future (the ‘maturity date’). In addition, the government makes regular periodic interest payments (called ‘coupon payments’). Once initially issued, government bonds are tradable on financial markets, meaning their value can fluctuate over time (even though the underlying face value and coupon payments remain the same). Investors are attracted to government bonds as, provided the country in question has a stable economy and political system, they are a very safe investment. Accordingly, in periods of economic turmoil, investors may be willing to accept a negative overall return in order to have a safe haven for their money. For example, once the market value is compared to the total received from remaining interest payments and the face value, investors have been willing to accept a negative return on two-year German government bonds between 2014 and 2021. Conversely, if the underlying economy and political structures are weak, investors demand a higher return to compensate for the higher risk they take on. Consequently, the return on bonds in emerging markets like Brazil are consistently higher than that of the United States (and other developed economies). Inverted yield curves When investors are worried about the financial future, it can lead to what is called an ‘inverted yield curve’. An inverted yield curve is where investors pay more for short term bonds than long term, indicating they do not have confidence in long-term financial conditions. Historically, the yield curve has historically inverted before each of the last five U.S. recessions. The last U.S. yield curve inversion occurred at several brief points in 2019 – a trend which continued until the Federal Reserve cut interest rates several times over that year. However, the ultimate trigger for the next recession was the unpredicted, exogenous shock of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, showing how such informal indicators may be grounded just as much in coincidence as causation.

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United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data was reported at 39.263 USD bn in Aug 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 29.218 USD bn for Jul 2018. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 14.254 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to Aug 2018, with 500 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 107.869 USD bn in May 2007 and a record low of 9.000 USD mn in Nov 1977. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data was reported at 527.233 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 472.852 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data is updated monthly, averaging 140.796 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 887.281 USD bn in Aug 2007 and a record low of 35.000 USD mn in Jan 1977. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data was reported at 7.093 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.931 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging -342.000 USD mn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 37.411 USD bn in Aug 2015 and a record low of -28.990 USD bn in Sep 2007. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Govt Agency Bonds data was reported at 1.209 USD bn in May 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.641 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Govt Agency Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 425.000 USD mn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 24.084 USD bn in Mar 2008 and a record low of -16.445 USD bn in Sep 2010. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US Govt Agency Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data was reported at 89.953 USD bn in Aug 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 104.222 USD bn for Jul 2018. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 42.258 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to Aug 2018, with 500 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 244.001 USD bn in Mar 2010 and a record low of 115.000 USD mn in Jan 1977. United States Gross Purchases by Foreigners: UK: Foreign Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

We request three days of beamtime on HRPD to study the crystallographic structures of six compounds containing a (distorted) frustrated antiferromagnetic lattice of Mo5+, 4d1 cations. Some of these compounds adopt a highly unusual spin−singlet valence bond state that is eliminated by structural distortion. Neutron diffraction will map the structural distortion as a function of composition and temperature and the data derived from these experiments will show which structural features are associated with the valence bond state. Distortions in perovskites can be subtle and so the high resolution of HRPD and counting times of 4 hrs are necessary. These compounds are also the subject of a proposal on EMU to use muons to examine the collapse of the valence bond state as a function of temperature and composition.

From 2003 to 2025, the central banks of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union exhibited remarkably similar interest rate patterns, reflecting shared global economic conditions. In the early 2000s, rates were initially low to stimulate growth, then increased as economies showed signs of overheating prior to 2008. The financial crisis that year prompted sharp rate cuts to near-zero levels, which persisted for an extended period to support economic recovery. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 led to further rate reductions to historic lows, aiming to mitigate economic fallout. However, surging inflation in 2022 triggered a dramatic policy shift, with the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and European Central Bank significantly raising rates to curb price pressures. As inflation stabilized in late 2023 and early 2024, the ECB and Bank of England initiated rate cuts by mid-2024, and the Federal Reserve also implemented its first cut in three years, with forecasts suggesting a gradual decrease in all major interest rates between 2025 and 2026. Divergent approaches within the European Union While the ECB sets a benchmark rate for the Eurozone, individual EU countries have adopted diverse strategies to address their unique economic circumstances. For instance, Hungary set the highest rate in the EU at 13 percent in September 2023, gradually reducing it to 6.5 percent by October 2024. In contrast, Sweden implemented more aggressive cuts, lowering its rate to two percent by June 2025, the lowest among EU members. These variations highlight the complex economic landscape that European central banks must navigate, balancing inflation control with economic growth support. Global context and future outlook The interest rate changes in major economies have had far-reaching effects on global financial markets. Government bond yields, for example, reflect these policy shifts and investor sentiment. As of December 2024, the United States had the highest 10-year government bond yield among developed economies at 4.59 percent, while Switzerland had the lowest at 0.27 percent. These rates serve as important benchmarks for borrowing costs and economic expectations worldwide.

United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data was reported at -2.214 USD bn in May 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.569 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data is updated monthly, averaging 1.120 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 61.259 USD bn in Aug 2010 and a record low of -68.216 USD bn in Jun 2014. United States Net Purchases by Foreigners: UK: US T Bonds & Notes data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data was reported at 32.868 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 32.345 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data is updated monthly, averaging 9.391 USD bn from Jan 1977 (Median) to May 2018, with 497 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 79.503 USD bn in Feb 2009 and a record low of 7.000 USD mn in Nov 1977. United States Gross Sales by Foreigners: UK: US Corp Bonds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z041: Foreign Purchases and Sales in Long Term Securities: European Countries.

In low dimensional caesium silicate LDS-1 (monoclinic phase of CsHSi2O5), anomalous infrared absorption bands observed at 93, 155, 1210, and 1220 cm-1 are assigned to the vibrational mode of protons, which contribute to the strong hydrogen bonding between terminal oxygen atoms of silicate chain with the O–O distance of 2.45 Å. The integrated absorbance (oscillator strength) for those modes is drastically enhanced at low temperatures. The analysis of integrated absorbance employing two different anharmonic double-minimum potentials makes clear that proton tunnelling through the potential barrier yields an energy splitting of the ground state. We propose to employ the neutron Compton (NCS) scattering to observe the onset of the proton tunnelling in a single-crystal specimen of LDS-1.