The UK 10-year gilt yield fell 2.5 basis points to 5.34% on Monday 26 October, Reuters reports. That is below the 5.38% Investing.com recorded on Thursday 22 October.
Reuters puts the 8 October peak at 5.5267%, the highest since July 2007. This matches the 5.53% peak reported earlier. On these figures the yield is now about 0.19 percentage points below that high, and below the 5.4% the IFS recorded on 2 October.
A separate Reuters Breakingviews piece gives an earlier reading of 5.3588% at 0900 GMT on Monday, against 5.3656% at Friday's close.
Sterling slipped 0.31% against the euro to £0.8398 and 0.15% against the dollar to $1.3348, according to Reuters. This followed a roughly 17-month high on Friday. Reuters says investors avoided big positions before the Chancellor, John Healey, delivers the Budget on Wednesday.