Bond yields edged higher on Wednesday after Commerce Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam said that India’s merchandise exports are likely to be around $470-480 billion in the current fiscal against $420 billion in 2021-22. The secretary also said the trade deficit, which crossed $100 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal, will not cross the ‘discomfort level’.
In the global market, U.S. Treasury yields hit multi-week peaks in choppy trading on Tuesday, as investors refocused on what is anticipated to be hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at this week's central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Furthermore, Oil prices fell, taking a breather from a nearly 4% surge the previous day on receding fears of an imminent output cut by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, a group known as OPEC+.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 1 basis point higher at 7.29% from its previous close of 7.28% on Tuesday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 2 basis points higher at 7.01% from its previous close of 6.99% on Tuesday.
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