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Rachel Reeves will need to put in place discounts in harsh spending to compensate for the high borrowing costs in her spring statement this month, as the investors warned, as the last rise in bond returns intensifies pressure on the UK counselor.

the Budget Responsibility Office He said on Wednesday that her initial financial forecast is based on borrowing costs in the United Kingdom during the ten working days until February 12, which excludes the most recent increase in the proceeds of sect.

Capital Economics analysts said that Reeves was on the right path to miss its main financial goal with a margin of 1.6 billion pounds, partly due to the high borrowing costs during the OBR window.

They said that if a modern period is used to assess interest rates, the damage will be more than 1 billion pounds.

Investors said that the figures emphasized the need for Reeves to support public financial affairs on March 26 at more than the minimum required by the OBR expectations to reassure the markets that they maintain the deficit under control.

David Zan, head of European fixed income at the director of asset Franklin Templeton, said that March 26 was formed to be a “huge day” for the Gilts market. He said that investors were expecting significant spending.

“If they do not come much (in terms of cuts), Gilts will be under pressure again,” Zan said. “It is a very thin line to walk.”

Reeves has been increasingly financial pressure since the bond returns have increased, and growth and borrowing have been overwhelmed by expectations.

Returns recently began to distinguish again, driven by investor expectations that Europe would have to borrow more to finance defense spending – a dynamic on a dramatic offer last week with German plans to finance hundreds of billions of euros from military spending and debt infrastructure.

A 10 -year -to -reserve doctrine was up to 4.7 percent on Wednesday, from less than 4.4 percent at the lowest level of the day in early February. Reverse the price.

“The international position is unlikely to become easier,” said Ben Nabaro, an economist in the UK in City.

He said this may require the construction of 15 billion pounds in the spring room. “With reasonable news, the additional tax increases are the issue of when, not.”

Reeves had previously put its statement on March 26 as a routine routine for the House of Commons after the OBR expectations. I promised to hold a “one major financial event” only per year, in the fall, which means that tax changes will come only once a year.

Now it is expected to reveal an additional reduction in public financial resources, as spending has been set on luxury and departments. Senior government officials insisted that the discounts in the social welfare system – are expected to provide at least 5 billion pounds annually – would have been executed regardless of the state of public financial affairs.

One official said: “They would have happened whether the head room was 2 billion pounds, or 20 billion pounds,” said one of the officials.

Reeves in October left the same 9.9 billion pounds From the head hall against its main financial base, which requires it fully financing everyday spending with tax receipts by 2029-30.

However, the increases in the revenues immediately after the October budget indicated the investor’s tensions about the exact margin left by the consultant itself – in the context of the government, which spends 1.3 trillines, £ annually.

Doctrine revenue for ten years has received at the highest level in 16 years in January by 4.93 percent, as economic concerns in the United Kingdom were mixed with the sale of global bonds, intensifying concerns about the advisor’s ability to reach its budget rules, before the debt wandered.

Since Donald Trump has grown doubts in Europe about the American commitment to European security in recent weeks, borrowing costs have increased again.

“Through the movement that we have seen in the revenue recently, (the) decreases to the section quickly,” said Craig Inshes, head of price and cash at Royal London Asset Management.

Goldman Sachs said in a memorandum on Tuesday that he expected discounts in spending worth about 10 billion pounds annually by the end of the expected horizon, where the advisor’s bids to restore her financial hall.

It believes that the new expectations will probably appear “missing” the current goal of deficit, with interest costs “significantly”.

OBR said on Wednesday that its financial expectations will also include reviews of the GDP data that were issued at the end of September, but it is very late so that it is not taken into account in October.

These reviews have sparked the starting point for the size of the economy in its budget expectations, but OBR said in its expectations in October that it would not have affected “financially” on the expectations of growth and inflation if they were able to calculate it.

Analysts said Reeves could gain some flexibility thanks to the decision of Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer to raid the UK foreign aid budget to finance an increase of 6 billion pounds annually in defense spending by 2027.

Some of this spending is likely to be dealt with as capital expenses, which are not counted on the Reeves base that requires it to record excess in the current budget in 2029-30.

A Treasury spokesman said: “The government’s commitment to financial rules and proper public financing is not negotiable.” “We do not comment on the speculation about obr expectations.”

Additional reports by George Parker in London