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index-linked

adjective

  1. (of wages, interest rates, etc) directly related to the cost-of-living index and rising or falling accordingly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Debt Management Office is due to auction index-linked gilts maturing in August 2031 on Wednesday.

Around a quarter of UK debt is index-linked, meaning payments are directly linked to the rate of inflation.

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However, around a quarter of the UK's debt is index-linked, meaning that the size of the debt rises with inflation, Mr Hughes said.

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Ominously perhaps, 10- and 30-year index-linked gilt yields were at the epicentre of the September budget shock.

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The BoE bought 19 billion pounds of long-dated and index-linked government bonds last month to halt a fire sale of assets by pension funds following former prime minister Liz Truss's mini-budget.

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