Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n
U.S. Treasury yields were lower on Tuesday as traders looked ahead to key debt auctions that may provide insight into market sentiment on U.S. debt and inflation.<\/p>\n
Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury<\/a>\u00a0yield were down by more than 2 basis points at 4.147%. The yield on\u00a0the 2-year Treasury<\/a> note\u00a0lost less than 1 basis point to 3.495%. The\u00a030-year bond<\/a>\u00a0yield declined 2 basis points to 4.815%.<\/p>\n One basis point equals 0.01%. Yields and prices move inversely to one another.<\/p>\n The bond markets will close early at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday and will remain closed on Thursday for Christmas.<\/p>\n During this shortened trading week, the Treasury is conducting several important debt auctions, which will offer a partial view of how investors are positioned and what their sentiments are regarding U.S. debt, inflation, and interest rate trends as 2026 approaches. <\/p>\n A $70 billion 5-year Treasury note auction is scheduled later in the day, followed by a $44 billion 7-year auction on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17945,64,81,8001,49076,6769,20674,37923,49075,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-466422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-economic-events","12":"tag-government-debt","13":"tag-prices","14":"tag-u-s-10-year-treasury","15":"tag-u-s-2-year-treasury","16":"tag-u-s-30-year-treasury","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115768492486736796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}