{"id":277610,"date":"2011-02-23T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/23\/treasuries-ease-after-tuesdays-plunge\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T14:23:40","slug":"treasuries-ease-after-tuesdays-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/23\/treasuries-ease-after-tuesdays-plunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasuries ease after Tuesday&#8217;s plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"68.9363449692\">    <!-- KEEP --><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/bonds\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/39753ebdaryield.top_.png\" alt=\"10-year Treasury yield\" width=\"475\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnstoryImageFull\" \/><\/a><span><b>Click the chart for real-time prices and yields.<\/b><\/span><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Annalyn Censky, staff reporter<\/span><span>February 23, 2011: 9:21 AM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; After unrest in Libya sent bond yields tumbling the day before, Treasury yields are holding steady near three-week lows Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 10-year note traded at a yield of 3.49% Wednesday morning, a mere fraction higher than the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/22\/markets\/bondcenter\/treasuries\/index.htm\">3.45% low it reached Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 30-year yield was flat at 4.60%, the 2-year yield ticked up to 0.77% and the 5-year yield inched up to 2.16%.<\/p>\n<p>Uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa have spurred investors into safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries recently, sending yields on those bonds falling. <\/p>\n<p>The 10-year note had rallied as high as 3.72%, before protests erupted in Libya nine days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors there are demanding an end to dictator Moammar Gadhafi&#8217;s 42-year reign and high unemployment in the country, following political uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>But unless any significant developments turn up the heat even more there, traders expect to see bond yields wobble around Tuesday&#8217;s levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still a lot of tension and uncertainty in the Middle East, but for now, the bond market has lightened up a bit,&#8221; said Kim Rupert, a fixed income analyst with Action Economics.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department is scheduled to auction off $35 billion in 5-year notes Wednesday. Ahead of large government sales, traders often try to push bond prices lower to get the best deal at auction, and that price pressure sends yields slightly higher.<\/p>\n<p>The government auctioned off $35 billion in 2-year notes on Tuesday and is scheduled to issue $29 billion of 7-year notes on Thursday.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/23\/markets\/bondcenter\/treasuries\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0e63013ebug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/CONTENT --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--startclickprintexclude--><br \/>\n<!--endclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p>First Published: February 23, 2011: 9:18 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/39753ebdaryield.top_-150x88.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/-rggmDmiNuY\/index.htm\" title=\"Treasuries ease after Tuesday's plunge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasuries ease after Tuesday&#8217;s plunge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Click the chart for real-time prices and yields. By Annalyn Censky, staff reporter February 23, 2011: 9:21 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; After unrest in Libya sent bond yields tumbling the day before, Treasury yields are holding steady near three-week lows Wednesday. The benchmark 10-year note traded at a yield of 3.49% Wednesday morning, a mere fraction higher than the 3.45% low it reached Tuesday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Treasuries ease after Tuesday&#039;s plunge - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/23\/treasuries-ease-after-tuesdays-plunge\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Treasuries ease after Tuesday&#039;s plunge - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Click the chart for real-time prices and yields. 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