Bond yields traded lower on Friday, despite in the wake of COVID-19, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 40 basis points (bps) to 4.0 per cent from 4.40 per cent with immediate effect.
In the global market, U.S. long-dated Treasury prices inched higher on Thursday in choppy trading, as investors were relieved that the flood of debt supply from the government to finance its stimulus programs was absorbed in the market fairly smoothly. Furthermore, oil prices were on the rise, heading for a fourth straight week of gains, amid more evidence that fuel demand is recovering as countries ease business and social restrictions that were imposed to counter the coronavirus pandemic.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 11 basis points lower at 5.92% from its previous close of 6.03% on Thursday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 7 basis points lower at 5.43% from its previous close of 5.50% on Thursday.
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