While the latter provide necessary relief they also have side effects and unintended consequences, including driving down yields to new lows on high-risk assets, Fitch analysts led by Monica Insoll in London wrote in their report.

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There are losers from lower gilt yields - including many individual savers.

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Pinot Gris does share certain Pinot family traits, however, including up-and-down yields, instant blandification when it's overcropped and a hypersensitivity to where it's planted.

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