Two ways to narrow a hundred gilts down to the one you want: the keyboard palette that jumps straight to a page, and a list's own search box and filters.
There are two ways to narrow a hundred-odd gilts down to one. The search palette jumps straight to a page from anywhere on the site; a list's own search box and filters leave you on the list with the rows narrowed and the columns still in front of you.
The search palette
The search control in the header, or Ctrl + K on Windows and Linux and ⌘ + K on a Mac, opens a palette over the current page. It searches the gilts and the site's guides from the same box, so a term you are not sure is a gilt or an article can be typed into it.
- Open the palette with the search control or Ctrl/Cmd + K. Leave the box empty to see what is available to start from.
- Type part of a name, a ticker or an ISIN. Results appear as you type, twenty at most, each with a name and a subtitle.
- Move with the arrow keys, or leave the list alone to take the first result.
- Press Enter to open the highlighted result, or Escape to close the palette and stay where you were.
Searching needs no account, and the palette closes over the page it was opened on rather than navigating away from it.
Narrowing a list
On the conventional and index-linked lists the toolbar above the table narrows the rows without leaving the page.
| Control | What it does |
| Maturity | All, Short, Medium or Long, with the count of rows in each band beside the label. One band at a time. |
| Coupon | All, Low or High, with counts. Conventional gilts only: the index-linked list has no coupon split. |
| Watchlist | All or Favourites. Favourites is a link to the same list with ?favourites=1, so it can be bookmarked; signed out, it shows the list unchanged. |
| Search | A box over the table that matches name, ticker or ISIN as you type. It narrows the rows already on the page rather than going back to the report. |
| Sort | Any column with a sort control in its header. Date columns sort by date, the numeric columns by value. |
Filters and sorting compose: narrow to the long end, then sort by gross yield, and the rows are the long gilts ranked by yield. The count beside each maturity label follows the other filters, so it always describes what is on screen.
Why a filtered list is comparable
Every row on a list is quoted on one basis — mid prices per £100 nominal, a gross redemption yield on the DMO's semi-annual convention, and a net redemption yield at the single tax band in the page head — so a filtered subset is still a like-for-like set. Narrowing to the long end does not change how a yield was worked out; it only changes which gilts are in front of you.
The one thing that is not on that single basis is the live capture. A row the live capture priced rather than the report is a complete valuation from that capture and is marked as such, with the price's own date travelling with it. Those rows sit beside report rows and are labelled, not blended in.
When there is nothing to show
A filter that leaves no rows leaves the table empty with its count at zero rather than falling back to the whole list. A search that matches nothing says so in the table body. Neither is an error: the toolbar is reporting what the report holds on that day.
If the whole page shows an empty state, no report has been published yet and the market pages are waiting for one. If the page head carries a notice that the report date fell back, the table is the latest report and the notice carries the link to it.
The columns behind the filtered rows are worked through in the gilt table, and the controls around them in reading the list. The terms this page draws on are the glossary's gross-yield, dmo-yield and net-yield.