{"id":42042,"date":"2022-06-08T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/treasury-yields-climb-as-investors-assess-growth-and-inflation-fears\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:18:11","slug":"treasury-yields-climb-as-investors-assess-growth-and-inflation-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/treasury-yields-climb-as-investors-assess-growth-and-inflation-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury yields climb as investors assess growth and inflation fears"},"content":{"rendered":"
US Treasury yields climbed early on Wednesday morning as investors await a key inflation indicator and assess signs of slowing economic growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
At around 8:30 am ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note had increased by roughly 6 basis points to 3.033%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up 6 basis points at 3.182%. Yields move inversely to prices, and a basis point is equal to 0.01%.<\/p>\n
Retail giant Target cut its profit guidance on Tuesday and announced plans to get rid of excess inventory, highlighting the growing risks to economic growth arising from surging inflation.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a widely tracked Federal Reserve gauge is indicating that the US economy could be on course for a second successive quarter of contraction, a technical recession. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tracker is pointing to an annualized gain in gross domestic product of just 0.9% for the quarter.<\/p>\n
Markets are looking ahead to May’s consumer price index reading on Friday, with the print likely to be influential in the scale and speed of the Fed’s monetary tightening path.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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US Treasury yields climbed early on Wednesday morning as investors await a key inflation indicator and assess signs of slowing economic growth. At around 8:30 am ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note had increased by roughly 6 basis points to 3.033%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up 6 …<\/p>\n