Bond yields traded higher on Friday, ahead of a fresh supply of notes at a weekly debt auction today.
In the global market, longer-term U.S. Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels in months on Thursday, steepening the yield curve, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a new policy framework promoting higher inflation to spur economic recovery and job creation. Furthermore, oil prices fell as a massive storm raced inland past the heart of the U.S. oil industry in Louisiana and Texas without causing any widespread damage to refineries.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 3 basis points higher at 6.17% from its previous close of 6.14% on Thursday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 6 basis points higher at 5.57% from its previous close of 5.51% on Thursday.
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