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Interest rates paid on U.S. government debt securities, serving as a key benchmark for mortgage rates, borrowing costs, and broader financial market pricing.
Healthcare led the S&P 500 up 0.33% on Thursday as Treasury yields fell and AI-linked shares sold off. The Labor Department put September producer prices up 1.3% against a 0.6% forecast, yet the 10-year yield's session low was still 5.037%.
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Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lost 9.5%, 11% and 9.3% in Asia while the 30-year Treasury yield fell 9.1 basis points. The drop added only 2.6% to the present value of a 30-year dollar, so the cause looks like AI borrowing and late revenue, with inflation as an add-on.
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Gold rose 1% while the 10-year Treasury yield fell eight basis points to 5.08% and copper slid nearly 1%, CoinDesk reported. CME futures put a Fed hike this month at 29%, down from nearly 50% after Wednesday's CPI, and we think that weakens the inflation half of the stagflation story.
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Kospi fell 7.6% as an AI-stock selloff pushed investors into bonds, taking the 10-year Treasury yield down nine basis points to 5.09%. Bloomberg's own strategist calls the bond move tactical, so one session is thin evidence that funding for AI buildouts has tightened.
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The 10-year Treasury yield reached about 5.22% from 4.75% in August, a level last seen in 2007, Axios reported. Wall Street analysts say heavy AI borrowing could make financing harder for the government, other companies and households.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000 on Monday, Decrypt and Bitcoin.com both reported. Decrypt put the odds of an October 28 Fed hike at 19.4% on CME FedWatch, yet spot ETFs took in only $21.13 million on Friday after two days of heavy outflows.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed about $485 million in a single session, enough to push October's flows below zero. Because that exit is small against the funds' asset base, oil prices and Treasury yields look like the stronger force behind the wider crypto sell-off.
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Treasury sold $39 billion of 10-year notes at a 5.30% yield, its highest auction yield since November 2000. Bidders showed up in size, so the cost lands on earlier buyers of the same notes and on a Treasury that raised about $37 billion for $39 billion of debt.
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Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta added about 300 points to the S&P 500 in the third quarter while the other members subtracted about 150. With roughly 311 stocks down, most of an index fund's money sat in the group that lost ground.
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US stock futures slid from record highs on Wednesday and Thursday as oil rose and the 10-year Treasury yield sat between 5.28% and 5.33%. With FactSet expecting 29.5% third-quarter earnings growth, how far the rally runs now depends on whether oil keeps pushing bond yields up.
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CME's FedWatch has Wednesday's quarter point at 94.5%, up from under half a month ago, and the ten-year at 5.04% shows bond desks bought it in advance. The forecasts still diverge on what follows.
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Wireless telephone services rose 5.9% in August, the most the BLS has ever recorded for the category, and without that one line core inflation rounds to the 0.2% economists expected. Traders moved hike odds to 85% anyway.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says oil could settle at $40-50 a barrel once the Iran war ends, a date he says he does not know. Without that date, investors get a direction for oil, yields and mortgage rates and have to price the wait themselves.
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The Treasury secretary wants G20 partners to cut Iran ties, shrink their current account surpluses and believe that yields are heading down. Follow the flows and those three asks pull against each other.
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Rising oil, Treasury yields and the dollar pushed bitcoin below $84,000 on Oct. 7 and forced out $403 million of leveraged crypto longs in one hour. The flush cleared only 0.27% of open interest, so most of that leverage is still in place as traders wait on the Fed's minutes.
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Dynex Capital's new Series D preferred pays a fixed 9.375%, less than its floating Series C already pays, a Seeking Alpha analysis says. With the 10-year Treasury above 5%, a buyer of the fixed share carries the rate risk that the older share hands back to Dynex.
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S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at records as the 10-year Treasury yield slipped 3.2 basis points to 5.279%. Stocks and yields have risen together for months and profits are forecast up 30.6%, so earnings look like the bigger force under the index.
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S&P 500 stocks hit a record on tech gains as Goldman Sachs forecast that Nvidia and Micron would supply a third of the index's third-quarter earnings growth. That leaves the season's headline growth rate dependent on two chip suppliers.
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Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta, about 17% of the S&P 500, produced nearly half its 0.66% Monday gain while Treasury yields rose to multiyear highs. The other 83% still rose about 0.4%, so the rate pressure shows up in utilities and income stocks.
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