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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Sam Barker

Bank of England's emergency move to calm market chaos by buying UK government bonds

The Bank of England has said it will start buying up bonds in an emergency move to avoid a “material risk to UK financial stability”.

The news comes after the pound plunged in the wake of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s Mini-Budget last week.

The central bank has paused its plans to sell government bonds, and instead will do the opposite by starting to buy up old ones.

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