10y UK Government Bond Yields (long-term interest rate)
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10 year nominal yields on UK government bonds from the bank of England. The 10 year government bond yield is considered a standard indicator of long-term interest rates. This is a direct extract from ...
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quarterly | 2.66 kB | quarterly | ||
annual | 662 B | annual |
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| Date | date | any | |
| Rate | number | default | Quarterly average yield from British Government Securities, 10 year Nominal Par Yield |
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| Year | date | any | |
| Rate | number | default | Annual average yield from British Government Securities, 10 year Nominal Par Yield |
10 year nominal yields on UK government bonds from the bank of England. The 10 year government bond yield is considered a standard indicator of long-term interest rates. This is a direct extract from the Bank of England IUAAMNPY series: "Annual average yield from British Government Securities, 10 year Nominal Par Yield".
Data
Data from Bank of England (series IUAAMNPY "Annual average yield from British Government Securities, 10 year Nominal Par Yield") with some minor processing (see scripts).
Full information about the BoE Yields data may be found on the BoE website at bankofengland official site
There are several relevant series:
- 10y par yields Annual average - IUAAMNPY - Annual
- www.bankofengland.co.uk
- 1984-present
- Direct download URLs look like
- There are also versions of this series at other granularities down to a day
- Daily - IUDMNPY - Daily
- Month average - IUMAMNPY - Monthly
- End month - IUMMNPY - Monthly
- Quarterly average - IUQAMNPY - Quarterly
- End quarter - IUQMNPY - Quarterly
- Annual average - IUAAMNPY - Annual
- End year - IUAMNPY - Annual
- 10y par gross redemption yield Annual average - IUAAAJLW - Annual
- 1984-2007 (not clear why this ends in 2007)
Preparation
You will need Python 3.6 or greater and dataflows library to run the script
To update the data run the process script locally:
# Install dataflows
pip install dataflows
# Run the script
python bond_uk_flow.py
License
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a user is acting in a manner contrary to the interests of other users of the
database e.g. excessive usage. [retrieved 2013-04-07]
However, the amounts of data provided in this dataset is so minimal as likely to fall below any threshold for Database Rights.
As such the maintainers feel warranted in putting the dataset out under the Public Domain Dedication and License but that they can, obviously, only license (or dedicate) material they control (or in which there are no rights).
