Bond yields trade lower on Friday

15 Mar 2019 Evaluate

Bond yields traded lower on Friday, as traders remain energized with a private report that the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) $5 billion plan to swap rupees for dollars with domestic banks will help achieve its twin objectives of pushing interest rates down while also preventing a sharp appreciation in the rupee.

In the global market, US Treasury prices dropped on Thursday in quiet trading overall, with the sharpest falls seen on the long end of the curve, pressured by corporate debt supply and some selling from Japanese investors ahead of Japan's fiscal year end this month. Furthermore, oil prices were steady, supported as production cuts led by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and US sanctions against Venezuela and Iran likely created a slight deficit in global supply in the first quarter of 2019.

Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 5 basis points lower at 7.50% from its previous close of 7.55% on Thursday.

The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading flat at its previous close of 6.98% on Thursday.

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