Bond yields traded higher on Tuesday, as UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its latest ‘The World Investment Report 2020’ has said that India was the 9th largest recipient of foreign direct investments (FDI) in 2019, with 51 billion dollars of inflows during the year, an increase from the 42 billion dollars of FDI received in 2018 when India ranked 12 among the top 20 host economies in the world.
In the global market, U.S. Treasury yields rose on Monday as stocks recovered from earlier losses and after the Federal Reserve said it would expand its purchases of corporate bonds, boosting risk appetite. Furthermore, oil prices dippedon jitters that a rise in coronavirus infections around the world could hurt fuel demand, but hopes that production cuts could be extended kept declines in check.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 6 basis points higher at 5.85% from its previous close of 5.79% on Monday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 5 basis points higher at 5.47% from its previous close of 5.42% on Monday.
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