Bond yields edged higher on Thursday, on account of lower demand from corporates and banks. However, losses were capped with report that the Central Statistics Office has revised the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate for 2015-16 to 8.2 per cent from the earlier estimates of 8 per cent and kept the 2016-17 growth unchanged at 7.1 per cent. The real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices for the years 2016-17 and 2015-16 stands at Rs 121.96 lakh crore and Rs 113.86 lakh crore respectively, showing growth of 7.1 per cent during 2016-17 and 8.2 per cent during 2015-16.
In the global market, the spread between longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields and short-dated ones contracted to the slimmest in over a decade on Wednesday as the government favored selling more short-dated debt than longer-dated issues to finance the projected rise in its budget deficit. Furthermore, U.S. oil prices extended gains as OPEC's strong compliance with a supply reduction pact offset news that U.S. production topped 10 million barrels per day for the first time in nearly half a century.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 6 basis points higher at 7.49% from its previous close of 7.43% on Wednesday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 7 basis points higher at 7.39% from its previous close of 7.32% on Wednesday.
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