Short-term US Treasury yields fell sharply, and after the preliminary revised data on non-farm payrolls was released, the latest meeting minutes showed that the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates in September

Wallstreetcn
2024.08.21 19:53

At the New York closing on Wednesday (August 21), the yield on the 10-year US Treasury benchmark bond fell by 1.89 basis points to 3.7878%. At 22:00 Beijing time (the US Department of Labor was originally scheduled to release preliminary revised non-farm payroll data at that time, but it was delayed), it rose and hit a daily high of 3.8294%. At 02:00, after the release of the minutes of the Federal Reserve's FOMC monetary policy meeting at the end of July, it hit a daily low of 3.7595%. The yield on the two-year US Treasury bond fell by 5.94 basis points to 3.9242%, hitting a daily high of 4.0041% at 22:00, and then resumed a volatile downward trend. At 02:02, it hit a daily low of 3.8886%