Bond yields trade higher on Wednesday

06 Mar 2019 Evaluate

Bond yields edged higher on Wednesday, as traders were concerned with the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) report stating that unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2 % in February 2019, the highest since September 2016, and up from 5.9 % in February 2018.

In the global market, revived fears about the progress of US trade negotiations with China muted an earlier jump in US Treasury bond yields on a report showing business activity and spending jumped in non-manufacturing sectors in February. Furthermore, Oil prices fell, as bullish output forecasts by two big US producers and a build in US crude stockpiles outweighed ongoing OPEC-led efforts to rein in crude production.

Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 1 basis point higher at 7.57% from its previous close of 7.56% on Tuesday.

The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 1 basis point higher at 7.06% from its previous close of 7.05% on Tuesday.

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