The 10-year Treasury yield continued to pull back from 5% on Friday after moving tantalizingly close to surpassing that level in the previous session.The yield touched 5% at 5:02 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, only to drift back down, according to Tradeweb data. It ended Friday’s New York session down by 6.3 basis points at 4.924%.
Rising Middle East tensions gave way to renewed safe-haven demand in government debt on Friday that not only sent the 10-year yield
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lower, but dragged down rates on everything from 3-month Treasury bills
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to the 30-year bond
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Investors were trying to catch the proverbial falling knife by taking advantage of a cheaper 10-year Treasury note, the product of recent selloffs. Analysts warn that it’s difficult to have much short-term conviction in catching that knife, however, given the likelihood that the selloff could return.One big reason is the onslaught of new supply from the U.S. Treasury as the result of the government’s growing borrowing needs, which is raising the risk that investors will keep demanding more compensation to hold long-dated debt to maturity. On Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, which is the same day as the Federal Reserve’s next policy decision, Treasury is expected to provide updated …
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