Bond yields edged lower on Wednesday, with rise in new export orders and strengthening business confidence, the Indian services sector growth jumped to over 7-year high in the month of February 2020. As per the survey report, the IHS Markit India Services Business Activity Index increased for the fifth successive month in February to 57.5 from 55.5 in January after dipping to a 19-month low in September 2019. The latest figure highlighted the quickest expansion in services output since January 2013.
In the global market, U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury yields on Tuesday slid below 1% for the first time, after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency move to ease the economic fallout from the fast-spreading coronavirus. Furthermore, Oil prices rose more than 1% on expectations that major producers have moved closer to an agreement to enact deeper output cuts aimed at offsetting the slump in demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 11 basis points lower at 6.23% from its previous close of 6.34% on Tuesday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 16 basis points lower at 5.65% from its previous close of 5.81% on Tuesday.
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