Bond yields traded higher on Friday despite credit rating agency, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) in its latest report has forecasted that fiscal 2026 (FY26) will be a year of headwinds for the credit market, led by externalities, length and breath of indebtedness in the retail lending space, volatile banking system liquidity and domestic growth-inflation conundrums.
In the global market, U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday in a shortened trading session as the bonds market will close early in honor of the late former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Furthermore, oil prices rose more than 1% on Thursday as cold weather gripped parts of the United States and Europe, boosting winter fuel demand.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 11 basis points higher at 6.87% from its previous close of 6.76% on Thursday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 12 basis points higher at 6.82% from its previous close of 6.70% on Thursday.
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