Section 1 | Shocks to the UK financial system

Chart 1.1 Official and forward interest rates (a) Sources: Bloomberg and Bank calculations. (a) Solid lines are official, dotted lines are one-week forward rates

Chart 1.2 US nominal interest rate volatility (a) Sources: Bloomberg and Bank calculations. (a)Annualised one-month volatility of daily changes in the one year ahead US nominal overnight forward rate.

Chart 1.3 Average implied volatilities of equity prices and exchange rates (a) Sources: BBA, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Eurex, Euronext.liffe and Bank calculations. (a) Standard deviation of distribution of returns based on three-month options. (b) July 2006 Report. (c)Simple average of €/£, $/¥, €/$ and £/$. (d)Simple average of S&P 500, Euro Stoxx 50 and FTSE 100

Chart 1.4 Yen carry trade ‘attractiveness’ Sources: Bloomberg, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, UBS and Bank calculations. (a)Spread between US and Japanese three-month interest rates per unit of implied volatility of the US$/¥ exchange rate. Dashed line based on implied forward rates. (b)July 2006 Report. (c)Six-month average of number of non-commercial short yen contracts as a proportion of total number of yen contracts

Chart 1.5 Asset prices during recent market turbulence (a) Sources: Bloomberg, Merrill Lynch, MSCI, Thomson Datastream and Bank calculations. (a) Rebased to 100 on 26 February 2007.

Chart 1.6 Foreign exchange reserve accumulation (a) and real interest rates Sources: Bloomberg, IMF International Financial Statistics and Bank calculations. (a) IMF definition (total reserves minus gold). (b) Seven and a half year spot real interest rate. (c) Latest data end-November for ‘other large oil exporters’ and ‘rest of world’.

Chart 1.7 Real cost of capital for UK PNFCs (a) Sources: Bloomberg, Merrill Lynch, Thomson Datastream and Bank calculations. (a)Private non-financial corporations. (b)Risk-free rate plus an investment-grade bond spread. (c)Risk-free rate plus an equity risk premium, estimated using a Gordon growth model for a sample of FTSE All-Share companies.

Chart 1.8 Decomposition of borrowing costs for UK sub-investment grade corporates Sources: Bloomberg, Merrill Lynch, Thomson Datastream and Bank calculations.

Chart 1.9 Real LBO loan issuance (a) Sources: Dealogic, US Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bank calculations. (a) Bi-annual syndicated lending deflated by US GDP deflator. (b) Shaded area is total up to 5 April 2007.

Chart 1.10 Global quarterly syndicated loan issuance Sources: Dealogic and Bank Sources: Dealogic and Bank calculations.

Oct Changes Changes to between: since: 26 Feb Feb Mar.2007 July 2006 and and Report 5 Mar Apr.2007 World equity index(a) MSCI emerging markets equity index(a) Industrial metals price index(a) Investment-grade bond spreads(b) Sub-investment grade bond spreads(b) Emerging market bond spreads(b) Sources: Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch and Bank calculations. (a) Per cent. (b) Basis points. Table 1.A Price changes of risky assets

Chart 1.11 On-the-run CDO tranche spreads and fees (a)(b) Source: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (a)Losses on x%–y% tranche accumulate as losses on notional principal of underlying North American investment-grade CDS index rise from x% to y%. (b)0%–3% tranche often referred to as ‘equity’, 3%–7% as ‘mezzanine’ (both of which are considered junior tranches) and others as grades of senior tranches. (c)July 2006 Report.

Chart 1.12 UK PNFCs’ net equity issuance and change in net debt (a) Sources: ONS and Bank calculations. (a) Four-quarter moving average

Chart 1.13 US implied forward corporate credit spreads (a) Sources: Merrill Lynch and Bank calculations. (a) One-year forward spread over swaps for BBB US corporate bonds

Chart 1.14 Speculative-grade corporate bond default rate forecasts Source: Moody’s Investors Service.

Chart 1.15 Personal insolvencies in England and Wales Source: Insolvency Service.

Chart 1.16 Profile of arrears performance of UK credit card lending vintages (a) (a) Data provided by a major UK bank, showing the proportion of credit cards in arrears in each month after the account was opened. (b) The axis is blank because of data confidentiality

Chart 1.17 Residential rental yields and mortgage rates Sources: Association of Residential Letting Agents and Bank of England. (a) Weighted average two-year fixed mortgage rate on owner-occupied mortgage with 75% loan to value ratio. (b) Gross rental yield adjusted for average vacancy rate per year.

Chart 1.18 Arrears of 60+ days on US second-lien sub-prime home equity loans (a) Source: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (a) Year refers to year of securitisation

Chart 1.19 Prices of US sub-prime mortgage credit default swaps (a) Source: JPMorgan Chase & Co (a) Price of ABX.HE.BBB-

Chart 1.20 Initial rental yield on commercial property and the swap rate Sources: Bloomberg and Thomson Datastream.

Chart 1.21 Global corporate bond spreads by rating (a) Source : Merrill Lynch. (a ) Option-adjusted spreads over government

Chart 1.22 Common component in asset prices (a) Sources: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, MSCI and Bank calculations. (a) Proportion of variation in global equities, emerging market equities, high-yield spreads and commodities explained by a common component over a three-month rolling window.

Chart 1.23 S&P 500 implied volatility Source: Bloomberg.

Section 1 | Box 1

Chart A Volatility of real GDP growth (a) Sources: ONS, Thompson Datastream and Bank Calculations (a)Five-year rolling average of annualised volatility of quarter-on-quarter growth rate.

Period Equity returns(b) Bond yield changes(c) (percentage points) (basis points) United United United United Kingdom States Kingdom States Jan – Aug (d) 59 Sep – Dec Jan – Mar July 2006 Report – Apr Table 1 Equity and bond volatility (a) Sources: Global Financial Data, Inc. and Bank calculations. (a) Based on monthly data, except for final row, which is based on daily data. (b) FTSE All-Share and S&P 500. (c) Ten-year government bonds. (d) Beginning January 1958.

SECTION 1 : BOX 2

Bid-ask spreads Gilt repo Exchange rates (dollar with yen, euro and sterling) FTSE 100 (average of individual stocks) Return to volume ratio Gilt market FTSE 100 (average of individual stocks) Equity options (S&P 500 options as a proxy) Liquidity premia Corporate bonds (investment grade and high yield) Libor spread (three-month dollar, euro and sterling. Table 1 Liquidity measures

Chart A Financial market liquidity (a) Sources: Bank of England, Bloomberg, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Debt Management Office, London Stock Exchange, Merrill Lynch, Moody’s investors Service, Thompson Datastream and Bank calculations. (a)Simple, unweighted mean of the liquidity measures, normalised on the period Data shown are an exponentially weighted moving average. The indicator is more reliable after 1997 as it is based on a greater number of underlying measures.