{"id":254012,"date":"2026-08-18T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254012\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:27:16","slug":"treasury-yields-rise-as-oil-gains-and-u-s-iran-tensions-fuel-inflation-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254012\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury yields rise as oil gains and U.S.-Iran tensions fuel inflation fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Aug. 5, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Jeenah Moon | Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Treasury yields rose on Tuesday, with long-dated yields surging to their highest level in over two decades, as tensions between the U.S. and Iran persisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The early hours of Tuesday morning saw yields on U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@US.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30-year Treasury<\/a> yields add over 1 basis point to trade at around 5.322%, hovering just below the highest level since 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US10Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-year Treasury<\/a> note yield \u2014 the main benchmark for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt \u2014 was more than 1 basis point higher at 4.736%.<\/p>\n<p>The yield on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US2Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-year Treasury<\/a> note, which typically reacts in line with short-term Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, was flat at 4.186%.<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long-term Treasury yields are trading at multi-decade highs. <\/p>\n<p>One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move inversely to one another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/17\/oil-prices-iran-war-strait-hormuz.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oil prices rose<\/a> as the 60-day deadline for the U.S. and Iran to secure a peace deal expired Monday, with Iran ruling out the possibility of an extension, according to state media. A senior Iranian official also told Reuters that Tehran would take an offensive stance if diplomacy with the U.S. fails.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Markets have seen growing weakness over the last 24 hours, with bonds and equities slipping thanks to negative geopolitical headlines from the Middle East,&#8221; Deutsche Bank&#8217;s Jim Rid wrote in a note on Tuesday. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t a single catalyst for the declines, but with few signs of the US and Iran coming to any sort of a deal, that meant investors priced in a more extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Resurging fears around inflation are sending government borrowing costs higher across the globe, with many longer-maturity bond yields hovering near multi-decade highs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The yield on Japan&#8217;s long-dated government bonds hovered near levels reached in May, when yields <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/01\/japan-pm-takaichis-budget-remarks-send-red-flag-to-bond-markets.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit<\/a> 40-year highs. Germany&#8217;s 30-year bond yield was last seen at its highest since 2011, while their British counterparts approached a multi-decade high. French 30-year government bond yields also ticked upward to a post-2008 high.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the economic data front, investors will look to import and export pricing figures for July, along with housing starts and pending home sales on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Chloe Taylor also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">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":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[32878,13371,206,208,135,203,147,202,34,2076,51],"class_list":["post-254012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-lco26v","tag-30-yr-treasury-future-sep25","tag-bonds","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-business-news","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-government-debt","tag-iran","tag-u-s-economy","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117115568343912384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}