Bond yields trade higher on Thursday

18 Apr 2019 Evaluate

Bond yields edged higher on Thursday, as traders remained concerned with a private report indicating that unemployment rate in India has doubled in eight years to 2018 as 50 lakh lost jobs in last two years beginning with demonetisation in November 2016.

In the global market, US Treasury yields drifted lower from four-week highs on Wednesday, as Wall Street shares lost steam in a holiday-shortened week and investors got back in the market after a recent sell-off. Furthermore, oil prices dropped as the impact of plentiful U.S. production offset a surprise decline in U.S. inventories, leaving international benchmark Brent retreating from a five-month high touched in the previous session.

Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 3 basis points higher at 7.42% from its previous close of 7.39% on Tuesday.

The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 2 basis points higher at 7.25% from its previous close of 7.23% on Tuesday.

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