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Treasury yields traded close to the flatline Thursday morning as traders digested new information on weekly jobless claims.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury turned flat at 4.581% after leaping 5 foundation factors above the 4.6% stage. The 2-year Treasury traded 1 foundation factors decrease at 4.329%.
One foundation level is the same as 0.01%. Yields transfer inversely to costs.
Jobless claims totaled 219,000 for the week ending Dec. 21, the Labor Division reported Thursday. The quantity got here simply 1,000 beneath the earlier interval and fewer than the 225,000 consensus forecast from Dow Jones.
Nonetheless, persevering with claims, which run every week behind, rose to 1.91 million, a rise of 46,000 and the best stage since Nov. 13, 2021.
The benchmark 10-year price has climbed greater than 40 foundation factors this month. The majority of the advance got here after the Federal Reserve pared down rate-cut projections, indicating solely two extra rate of interest cuts in 2025, down from the 4 potential cuts penciled in throughout September.
