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British 10-year government bond yields recorded their biggest one-day rise in nearly four years on Thursday after Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Brexit talks with his British counterpart Boris Johnson had been "very positive".

Varadkar told Irish reporters that he now thought it was possible for Britain to reach a deal to leave the European Union in an orderly way by an Oct. 31 deadline.

Investors have flocked to British government bonds in recent weeks partly due to fears of a disruptive no-deal Brexit that would force the Bank of England to cut interest rates.

By contrast, the receding prospect of a no-deal Brexit pushes up yields as investors sell bonds.

Ten-year yields hit a two-week high of 0.595% on Thursday after jumping more than 12 basis points, according to Refinitiv data, the biggest one-day rise since Dec. 3, 2015, when markets were roiled by underwhelming European Central Bank stimulus.

Yields had already been lifted across advanced economies by hopes of progress in trade talks between the United States and China which might ease an ongoing global economic slowdown. The yield spread between 10-year British and German government bonds widened by 6 basis points to 106 basis points, the sharpest such move in a month.

Short sterling interest rate futures also sold off around 4 to 6 ticks across 2020 contracts as investors cut bets that the Bank of England would be forced to lower interest rates.

Meeting in northwest England, Johnson and Varadkar said they could "see a pathway to a possible deal", sending sterling sharply higher and yields following suit. However, some analysts urged caution ahead of a meeting between Britain's Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and the EU's lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, on Friday, and an EU leaders' summit on Oct. 17-18.

Copyright Reuters, 2019

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