Saudi Arabia Raises Security Alerts as Houthi Attacks Threaten Oil Routes 
Hong Kong Unveils First Five-Year Plan to Boost Finance, Tech and Housing 
BOJ Set for 25-Basis-Point Rate Hike as Yen Weakness Fuels Inflation 
Gold Prices Fall Amid Rate Jitters; Copper Steady as China Stimulus Eyed 
Supertanker Orders Surge as US-Iran War Reshapes Oil Trade 
Iran Economic Crisis Forces Afghan Families to Return Home 
US Futures Fall as Fed Meeting, Oil Surge Rattle Markets 
Asian Currencies Mixed as Dollar Holds Gains After Fed Rate Hike 
Trump Hopes Iran War Nears End as Yemen Fighting Escalates 
US Stocks Rise Ahead of Fed Rate Decision 
US Stock Futures Rise as Markets Brace for Fed Rate Hike 
Add as a preferred source on Google
The United Kingdom’s gilts remained tad higher during European trading hours Thursday despite a better-than-expected jump in the country’s retail sales for the month of June.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year gilts, slipped 1 basis point to 0.750 percent, the 30-year yield rose also suffered 1 basis point to 1.372 percent and the yield on the short-term 2-year also edged nearly 1 basis point down to 0.528 percent by 09:25GMT.
Britain’s monthly retail sales volumes jumped 1.0 percent, the Office for National Statistics said, well above all forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists that had pointed to a 0.3 percent drop. Compared with June 2018, sales were up by 3.8 percent, again stronger than all forecasts.
With Prime Minister-in-waiting Boris Johnson having over the past few weeks promised Conservative Party members lashings of budgetary largesse in terms of tax cuts and more public spending – while at the same time talking up the prospect of a highly damaging no-deal Brexit – the OBR’s Fiscal Risks report might also be worth watching today, Daiwa Capital Markets reported.
Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 remained tad -0.39 percent lower at 7,505.96 by 09:30GMT.
