Bond yields trade higher on Friday

08 Nov 2019 Evaluate

Bond yields edged higher on Friday, as Moody's Investors Service cut the country’s credit outlook to Negative and tracking a sharp spike in US yields overnight.

In the global market, US Treasury yields surged to more than three-month highs on Thursday, exaggerated by technical factors, as reports that a US-China agreement to roll back trade tariffs boosted global economic growth expectations. Furthermore, US crude oil futures fell amid fading hopes that a deal to end the lingering trade war between Washington and Beijing would be signed any time soon, the gloom compounded by rising crude inventories in the United States.

Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 5 basis points higher at 6.55% from its previous close of 6.50% on Thursday.

The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 3 basis point higher at 6.34% from its previous close of 6.31% on Thursday.

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