UK bonds on course for biggest two-day fall since 1998
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LONDON (Reuters) - British government bond prices were on course for their biggest two-day fall since the 1998 emerging-markets crisis on Thursday as investors braced for a surge in public borrowing to cope with the damage the coronavirus is doing to the economy.British gilts are normally viewed by investors as a safe haven at times of turmoil, but investors have dumped assets in their rush for U.S. dollars as the scale of the virus's impact on the global economy has grown.Sterling fell to a..