{"id":590210,"date":"2026-07-17T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:11:08","slug":"treasury-yields-fall-as-traders-weigh-domestic-outlook-and-fresh-middle-east-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590210\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury yields fall as traders weigh domestic outlook and fresh Middle East strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Treasury yields fell Friday as investors digested a raft of data releases indicating the U.S. economy continues to withstand inflationary pressures caused by the Iran war, as hostilities in the Middle East<\/a> intensified overnight. <\/p>\n

Yields on the key 10-year Treasury<\/a> note \u2014 the main benchmark for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt \u2014 dropped more than 4 basis points to 4.525%.<\/p>\n

Shorter- and longer-dated yields also retreated as government bonds rallied. The yield on the 2-year Treasury<\/a> note, which typically moves in line with short-term Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, shed 3 basis points to reach 4.122%.<\/p>\n

The 30-year Treasury yield<\/a>, which tends to track broader geopolitical events, was more than 3 basis points lower at 5.063%.<\/p>\n

One basis point equals 0.01%, or 1\/100th of 1%, and yields and prices move inversely to one another.<\/p>\n

The slide in borrowing costs follows cooler-than-expected producer<\/a> and consumer<\/a> price data this week, while U.S. jobless claims for the week ending July 11 came in lower than forecasted, at a seasonally-adjusted 208,000.<\/p>\n

Traders continue to monitor escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, which pushed energy prices higher on Friday, and the potential impact on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate path.<\/p>\n

U.S. West Texas Intermediate<\/a> futures for August delivery were last seen 1.9% higher at $80.44, while Brent crude<\/a> \u2014 the international price benchmark \u2014 was up 1.6% at $85.59.<\/p>\n

Bond yields surged during Thursday’s session<\/a> after Washington and Tehran earlier exchanged fresh strikes and threatened each other’s infrastructure assets in the region. <\/p>\n

Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treasury yields fell Friday as investors digested a raft of data releases indicating the U.S. economy continues to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[189271,989,7033,79,207,4056,179,18,7034,22255,19,17,7029,7028,36423,4367,384,22254],"class_list":["post-590210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-lco26u","tag-bonds","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-government-debt","tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-u-s-10-year-treasury","tag-u-s-2-year-treasury","tag-u-s-30-year-treasury","tag-u-s-economy","tag-united-states","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116934783643551616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}