Bond yields trades lower on Thursday

27 Aug 2015 Evaluate

Bond yields traded lower on Thursday on the expectation that lower oil prices and slowing inflation will give the central bank room to cut borrowing costs.

In the global front, U.S. Treasuries prices stumbled on Wednesday after a top Federal Reserve official scaled back his view of a rate increase in September in the wake of market turbulence stemming from worries about China's economy. Furthermore, Brent crude climbed by more than $1 a barrel on Thursday on an unexpected fall in U.S. crude inventories and a rally in global equity markets, but a stronger dollar capped gains.

Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 3 basis points lower at 7.76% from its previous close at 7.79% on Wednesday.

The benchmark five year yields were trading 2 basis points lower at 788% from its previous close of 7.90% on Wednesday. 

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