Bank Rate held. Two-year gilt yield down eight basis points. Best easy-access savings rate now 4.35 per cent. FTSE 100 flat, miners down. NS&I cuts Premium Bond prize rate from next month. Five items, and you know what happened to your money overnight.

Metro Nuggets is a daily briefing on UK markets, rates and savings for people who hold a pension, an ISA or a savings account and want to know what moved without reading six newspapers. It is written for a phone at 7am. Each morning brings five short dated items, headline first, two to four sentences each, then a single line on why it matters to an ordinary saver or investor.

The briefing covers the Bank of England and interest rates, gilt yields and what they do to mortgage pricing and annuities, the FTSE and major index moves, savings rate changes across the main providers, inflation releases, and the policy announcements that reach household finances. A rates dashboard shows the current best savings rates, Bank Rate and gilt yields in one place, updated daily.

There is no stock tipping and no prediction. Metro Nuggets reports what moved and what it means; it does not say what to buy. Anything here is general information, not a recommendation.

The briefing is edited by Alex Mercer, who has followed UK markets for many years. Metro Nuggets is an independent UK publication and does not give personal financial advice. An email edition goes out at the same time each morning.